Plant of Champion Fibre Company Canton, North Carolina, 1910 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 rare historic image captures Plant of Champion Fibre Company Canton, North Carolina, 1910 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Plant of Champion Fibre Company (south side) Canton, N.C.
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Plant of Champion Fibre Company Canton, North Carolina, 1910
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Canton, North Carolina, in 1910 was a small mountain town in Haywood County that had been reshaped by a single industry. The Champion Fibre Company, whose backers came from Ohio, had built a large paper mill on the Pigeon River, using the river's power and the surrounding forests to make wood pulp and paper. Workers came from nearby farms and coves to take jobs at the mill and in the timber woods, and the company built houses and other facilities that tied much of daily life to the mill's shifts. Growth brought new roads, schools, and churches, but it also meant the river, which the mill drew on and drained into, began to carry the marks of industry downstream. Most residents would have known the town first as the paper mill.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pelton, herbert w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,311 × 1,216 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Plant of Champion Fibre Company (south side) Canton, N.C. |
| Reference | NC 1910 Plant of Champion Fibre Company Canton |
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