About

OUR NAME DERIVES FROM OUR ORIGINS

The Brooks and Winton family businesses created value for generations, converting raw timber holdings into crafted forest products and paper. Today, Sawmill transforms broad client goals into well-ordered and comprehensive plans – achieving outcomes tailored to each client’s needs.

Sawmill’s lasting legacy of value is built by families for families.

Our guiding philosophy – to serve as an extension of each family’s investment needs – remains the same as when we were first established by the Brooks family to manage proceeds generated by the sale of the Brooks-Scanlon forest products business. We are committed to remaining independent of large financial institutions to serve our families best.

1901

Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company incorporated

1969

Brooks-Scanlon public offering

1980

Brooks-Scanlon merges with Diamond International Corp., and Brooks Associates is established

1992

Brooks Associates acquires Resource Trust Company, which grows to $2 billion in assets

2001

Resource Trust is sold to U.S. Trust, allowing Brooks Associates to operate as a private investment firm focused on serving families

2004

Brooks Associates establishes Sawmill as a private trust company in South Dakota

2006 - Present

Sawmill welcomes outside families that today total over 30