Scaffolding covering most of the Champion Fibre mill buildings

Description

This photograph looking south in early 1907 shows many buildings under construction, with the exception of the pulp mill machine room and pulp storage warehouse to the left. The high sulphite digester house has been topped off, and the roof of the soda digester house in front of it is still being erected. In the far distance beyond the digester buildings is the Fincher house, which was built in about 1900, still standing today, 120 years later. 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: 5.5" x 6.25"
- 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_10_087
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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