Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
About 1900 Sprague’s Falls on the St. Croix River, five miles north of Baring, was identified as an ideal location for a dam and a paper mill by a consortium of businessmen.
The St. Croix Paper Company was formed, land was purchased, and in 1905 the largely uninhabited area around the falls was cleared. About a thousand Italian contract laborers built the Woodland Mill in the summer of 1906.
By the end of September of 1906 the mill had produced its first paper, and in 1907 a second paper machine was added. In 1909 the town had grown to over 800 people, some the Italian laborers who had built the mill. Woodland prospered and the mill continued to expand. It remained a successful operation in 2013.
The foreground of this photo shows the mill pond, the large expanse of water that held many thousands of logs cut the previous winter and driven downstream during the spring thaw.
About This Item
- Title: St. Croix Paper Mill, Woodland, ca. 1910
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Woodland, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.103009
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Saint Croix Pulp and Paper Company (Woodland, Me.)
- Paper industry--Maine--Woodland
- Paper products industry--Maine--Woodland
- Paper mills--Maine--Woodland
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Photographs--Maine
- Postcards--Maine
- Logging--Maine
- Logs--Transportation
- Italian Americans--Maine
- Pulp mills--Maine--Woodland
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