Our History
It all started when young Dale Carlisle visited a local sawmill and ran across a stack of wide Eastern White Pine boards — the kind used for flooring by the early New England colonists. No one seemed to be paying much attention to them. But Dale liked what he saw, and though money was tight, he bought them and put an ad in the local paper.
The boards sold immediately, and Dale made a small profit. Having found his supplier, he next used more of them to floor the new house he was building for his family, and as his spare time permitted, he filled a few requests from the local area. He milled each floor by hand, delivered the floors in his truck and personally installed them. It was a labor of love. A love for the forests, a love for the crafting of floors one board at a time and a love for the families who would enjoy them.
Before long, Dale had earned the reputation of being the go-to guy on wide plank flooring: an expert on tree selection, harvesting, drying, milling and all the other painstaking processes necessary to create the unique character and enduring beauty of these floors. As his hobby evolved into a full-time business, he continued to maintain personal relationships with each new customer to make sure they all got exactly the floor they wanted.
This tradition continues today and is what makes Carlisle truly special.
Don and Dale Carlisle
Stoddard, New Hampshire