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Plant at Canton

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  • This photograph entitled 'The Plant at Canton' is featured on page 1 of the booklet 'Glimpses of the Plant of the Champion Fibre Co., Canton, North Carolina: Souvenir of the Visit of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, May 1922.' Expansion in the early 1920s at the already vast Champion Fibre Company plant in Canton, N.C. signaled creation of the largest paper plant in the nation. The photographer's name is unknown.