Sam Carey Lumber Co

About Sam Carey Lumber Co

Sam Carey Lumber Co is a sawmill and hardwood lumber supplier in Germantown, Tennessee, in Shelby County. It has been in business since 1936, run today from its sales office in Memphis and a mill in Cairo, Illinois. The company supplies kiln-dried hardwood lumber in species like Soft Maple, Cherry, Walnut, Cypress, Hickory, Hard Maple, Red Oak, White Oak, Ash, Poplar, Sycamore, and Aromatic Cedar, drawn from Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee. Lumber is shed-dried, kiln dried to 6-8% moisture, "stress relieved and conditioned," then checked by NHLA inspectors. It offers custom milling, including straight line ripping and finish surfacing, plus rift and quartered Red Oak, White Oak, and Ash. Every package is export prepped and tallied, and the company welcomes flatbed or container loading. Sam Carey calls Memphis "the hardwood capital of the world," and ships from its sales offices there and its Cairo, Illinois facilities, with a stated capacity of over 6,000,000 feet of Appalachian hardwoods. This fits a landowner looking for a hardwood lumber supplier or a custom milling shop to work with cut boards, not a crew that comes out to harvest standing timber on a property. From samcareylumber.com, read 3 October 2026.

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