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Contractors brought in their statements and said ‘I owe you this money’. “The community reached out to help us rebuild the lumber yard. On August 1, 1979, at 9:30AM, a fire started in the newly completed lumber barn destroying the building and its contents, as well as the office, which had all of the records. Both Mike and Diane worked at the yard/store during the day and made lumber deliveries after-hours, sometimes getting home after midnight. In late 1976, he and Diane took the plunge and joined his parents full-time. Mike had been working at Lawrence Livermore Lab as an Electron Microscopist, coming up to work the weekends and his days off at Calaveras Lumber.

They are now the current business owners. Shortly after Wilbur and Louise opened the retail lumberyard, their son, Mike Fullaway and daughter-in-law Diane, joined them. “I never imagined that what we had then would grow into this,” stated Wilbur in 2010. The first major lumber job was for the “Gold Country Inn” in Angels Camp. Wilbur had worked for American Forest Products, where he cultivated many contractor contacts in the Arnold, Angels Camp and Toyon areas.

The business that the Fullaways bought sold mostly fencing and grew into a retail lumber company.

In 1976, the hardware store was 600 square feet today the store occupies over 20,000 square feet. From its humble beginnings with four employees and one delivery truck on ½ acre property, Calaveras Lumber has grown to over 60 employees, with six trucks and 13 fork lifts on 4 ½ acres.

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Click on an image below for full sized image…įorty years ago, Wilbur and Louise Fullaway started a small family owned business, Calaveras Lumber Company. Angels Camp & Sonora, CA…March Red Hot Buys at Calaveras & Sonora Lumber.