The Wood Preserving Corporation
company · active 1936
A Baltimore lumber-treatment firm, one of the two bidders that supplied the material for Ocean City's rebuilt boardwalk. Its representative came before the council on 21 October 1936 to describe the product and its lasting qualities, returned on 10 November as 'Mr. Clifton of The Wood Preserving Corp of Balto.', and quoted on 17 November: $57.55 a thousand for Wolman-treated lumber and $66.00 for creosote stringers. The town bought its creosote stringers, and dense structural square-edge sound lumber for the decking at $57.55.
In the record (1)
1944 · 1944-10-10
Ocean City bought twelve acres of Frank Hastings's land for $1,500 in October 1944 to dig a hole for its garbage and core a parking lot out of the topsoil.
The council looked over Frank Hastings's lot of twelve acres and, on motion by Savage seconded by Dolle, bought it for $1,500 - for a dump, once a road could be built through and the topsoil removed to core a parking lot and make a hole to use as a dump. At the same meeting the secretary was to write the Wood Preserving Corporation, Century Division, about treated decking and price; the council was to walk the sidewalks in a body; and it decided to clean Baltimore Avenue of sand as soon as the boardwalk was rebuilt to 12th Street. The council also agreed to go to Baltimore as soon as practical to look over Army trucks for hauling garbage and buy if suitable - a week later it wrote to the Procurement Division to ask when the next sale would be at Camp Meade.
Source · checked 2026-08-12