Although LOK-N-LOGS marked its twentieth anniversary in 1996, the LOK-N-LOGS story really begins nearly three-quarters of a century ago. That's when Charles Webb, grandfather of LOK-N-LOGS founder and current President, Jim Webb, began his sawmilling operation in central New York State. In 1925, he founded Webb & Sons, which quickly became one of the area's largest retailers of milled hard and soft woods. Through the years, several retail Home Centers were added in the Central New York region - as Webb & Sons continued to prosper.
   LOK-N-LOGS actually began as a direct result of America's bicentennial. Fort Stanwiz, located in the heart of Rome, New York and the first to fly the American flag in battle, played a vital role in the Revolutionary War. However, the fort, originally built in 1776 with double log walls, fell into disrepair a few years after independence was won. To celebrate the bicentennial, the people of Rome, New York, convinced the federal government to rebuild Fort Stanwiz. In fact, this particular National Parks project was the largest single bicentennial effort in the nation.

    Jim Webb took the experience which he had gained at Webb & Sons and started LOK-N-LOGS in 1975 in order to provide the logs for the restoration of Fort Stanwiz. The job took 55 trailer loads of logs with every log precut and marked for easy assembly. Not long after the restoration of Fort Stanwiz was underway, historic Fort Wayne in Indiana called LOK-N-LOGS with a similar project. Fort Wayne needed 30 trailer loads and, because Fort Wayne was built in the nineteenth century, the milling techniques were totally different. In 1978, a third fort was shipped 1700 miles to Fort Atkinson, Nebraska.
     Since our log home beginnings, we have worked hard to refine our manufacturing and treatment processes. As a result, LOK-N-LOGS has become one of the nations, leading producers of handpeeled, precut log home packages. We remain one of only two log home manufacturers currently committed to pressure-treating all of your log components with TIM-BOR® a borate-based wood preservative. It is this commitment to quality which has placed LOK-N-LOGS among the industry leaders. It is our commitment to our customers which has kept us there.