Redforlife, in my neck of the woods on the baren plains of northwest Iowa most of the buildings were built with lumber yard lumber unless the building site was close to a river valley that had trees. From my experience with tearing down old buildings full sized lumber pretty much ended around 1900 or maybe a little before. They went from square nails to round nails at about that same time frame. The first part of my house was built around the very late 1890's and it has planed lumber but not quite to 1 1/2" thickness for the 2" lumber. The old part of my house also is put together with round nails.
Some of the real old full sized lumber I have removed from buildings did not have circular marks and the lumber was very soft so I assume it came in on the train instead of from a local sawmill. The local sawmills in those days were circular and most of the lumber available was oak or maple because those were the trees growing in the river valleys. In 1900 there were no large farm groves with trees large enough to use for lumber in this area.
Saw mills are scarce in this area even today and they are long gone from the river valley areas. There is a fella with a nice saw mill inside a building a few miles away from me but I have never used his services mainly because I don't have any big trees to saw.
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