Construction of Champion Fibre Company from across the Pigeon River

Description

Looking northeast in the fall of 1907, the main boiler house and smokestack appear to be complete, situated between the finished digester houses. To the left, the extract plant boiler house is still behind scaffolding. Also, construction of the 520-feet long housed conveyor stretching between the wood preparation buildings and the tannin extract plant has just been started. This photograph is part of the Alan & Stephen Sellars Collection, a collection of photographs depicting the construction of the Champion Fibre Company paper mill in Canton, North Carolina. The mill, under construction from 1905 until 1908, was, for a time, the largest paper mill in the world. Much of the description information came from Carroll C. Jones and his book “Thomson’s Pulp Mill: Building the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina – 1905 to 1908” where more details can be found.
Details
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1907
- Extent
  - Dimension: 4.5" X 6.5"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Haywood County (N.C.)
  - Canton (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Alan & Stephen Sellars Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS21-01_01_08_078
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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