Champion Fibre Company, Canton, North Carolina, 1911 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Champion Fibre Company, Canton, North Carolina, 1911 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Overlooking plant of Champion Fibre Company, Canton, N.C. (from south side)
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Champion Fibre Company, Canton, North Carolina, 1911
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In 1911, Canton, North Carolina, a mill town in Haywood County on the Pigeon River, was being remade by the Champion Fibre Company, whose paper and pulp plant had begun operating in the Pigeon River valley only a few years earlier. The company drew on the forests of the southern Appalachians for wood and on the river for the water its process required, so the mill quickly became the center of local work and the main reason people moved to the town. Residents would have measured the place by the plant's whistle and shifts, and by the housing, stores, and churches that grew up around it. The mill also brought outside managers, engineers, and laborers into a region that had been largely farming and small-scale timber work, and it altered the town's daily rhythms and its sense of itself.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pelton, herbert w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,183 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Overlooking plant of Champion Fibre Company, Canton, N.C. (from south side) |
| Reference | NC 1911 Champion Fibre Company, Canton |
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