Sutherlands Building Material Coupons

As one of America's first building supply stores, The Sutherland Lumber Company pioneered the "cash-and-carry" building material business and helped shape the industry we all know today. Thank you for taking a few moments to read our proud history as told by Herman Sutherland, son of Mr. Robert Sutherland, Founder. In 1917 my grandfather, also named Robert Sutherland, died and left a small sum of life insurance to my father. My mother had some money given to her by her father, matching my father's inheritance. With that they formed a fifty-fifty partnership and built a lumberyard in Durant, Oklahoma. They sold materials for house patterns, or blueprints as we call them today. World War I...