About Us

   Cypress Shakes,  the site, was born 2/03/03. Under less than auspicious beginnings We have enjoyed a steady growth in these short months. We are now the number one positioned site of it's kind in the world.

   My name is Dennis Proffer and I will take very little credit for the site. My father became a web master at the age of 75 and he built  this site. My job is getting the material that we have out to you. So I spend a lot of my time on this machine and the phone.

   My first experience in this industry (at the age of 15) was working for my uncle (Chester Davis) as a swamper, cutting cypress, sweet gum and willow on the Mississippi, where the Tunica casinos are now. It still amazes me to go there and see those places and remember how it was forty years ago. It also saddens me to see how little is left of the once magnificent forests that once lined the great river. In any case, things change. Case in point. Both of my grandfathers were sharecroppers. One from Mississippi, the other from Oklahoma. I have a true insight into Steinbeck.

    We are located in Grenada, Mississippi. in the north central part of the state. Demographically within 900 miles of  seventy five percent of this country's population. Based on this shipping is not a problem. We work extremely hard to maintain a solid material base for our customers and have seldom failed to deliver. I would bore you with the details of my numerous daughters and sons, but we will save that for when you call. Call me personally.

Dennis Proffer
                            
Founder
Cypress Shakes

662-614.2159