Keywords: pulp mill
Item 9048
Pulp Mill, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 31548
Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: 1915 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
Exhibit
Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making
Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2
"At this time the mill was owned by the Eastern Manufacturing Company. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Pulp Mill, Penobscot River, 1902 - Page 1 of 2
"… mill came in 1910 and was built in front of the pulp mill. The trestle at right is still used by the railway today."
Story
First night on the pulp pile at zero degrees, to mill foreman
by Arthur Benedetto
I worked my way up in International Paper, moving from the pick ax pile to a foreman on computers
Story
Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.
