The name of this oak plantation derived from the French name, Bois-de-Cuisinères, where French troops housed their field kitchens, and not in reference as is sometimes thought to the British general officer of the same name.

The mill was designed by architect Luitje Wiersema and built by the first owner and operator Eiko Jan Feunekes in 1938 to saw lumber from his oak plantation.

Why tell Mother Superior where every oak plantation is located?

In the early 1830s the first oak plantations were established.

For around 130 years, Inchcailloch was an oak plantation.

Forming up in front of the Sixteenth Battalion, the two units mounted a hasty assault on an oak plantation known as Bois de Cuisineres, or Kitcheners' Wood, so named because the French had located their field kitchens there.

Their attack cleared the former oak plantation of Germans at the cost of 75 percent casualties.

When the oak plantations matured in the mid-19th century, the masts were no longer required because shipping had changed.