Revival Millworks employee Walter Mendoza grinds a new template blade to use for milling wood pieces at the Revival Millworks workshop in Livermore.

White Brothers Mill, Oakland, CA., has auctioned off its equipment and remaining inventory, closing the book on the 150-year-old hardwood pioneer

The White Brothers Mill in Oakland, California, originally began operation in 1868 as Straut-White Co. in San Francisco. Four years later, in 1872, company partner Peter White's brother Asa White joined the Straut-White Company.