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Soda digester house

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  • Looking northwest to the soda digester house in 1907 with scaffolding surrounding it and a scaffold tower on the east wall. The concrete wall for the screening and filter rooms is in the foreground. 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.