Grant Cedar Mill

About Grant Cedar Mill

Grant Cedar Mill is a sawmill in Gordonsville, Tennessee, on Highway 141 twelve miles east of Lebanon. It buys Eastern Red Cedar logs and standing timber, and it is "always in need of cedar logs" to keep the mill running. This isn't a logging outfit that comes to your land. All purchasing happens at the mill, and they don't cut or haul logs themselves, so you'd need to get your cedar logs there. Logs have to be trimmed clean of limbs, at least 4 inches on the top end, and cut to either 8 foot or 16 foot lengths, no more or less than 4 inches over. Logs with rot, that are too crooked, or that come out of yards or fence rows won't be bought as saw logs. The mill buys by weight or by the International Cedar Scale measure, and it covers Smith County. Richard and Leslie Smith, Jerrell Smith, and Gerald Kelley own and run it. The business "was started over twenty years ago with little more than one contract and a prayer" and now ships lumber across the eastern half of the United States, plus exports internationally, while still producing over 10,000 board feet of wholesale lumber a day. They also sell retail cedar products straight to the public. This fits a landowner with cedar logs already down or standing timber they're ready to cut themselves and haul to the mill, not someone looking for a crew to come fell and remove trees for them. From grantcedarmill.com, read 3 October 2026.

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