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Article: From rags to riches
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- May 12, 2009
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Papermaking has a long history in the Pine Tree State, and most
of it has been connected with the forests of Maine and the all-
important wood fiber they supply.That wasn't always the case. Paper
was once a product of other fibers mostly found in rags.
A couple of mills on the Little Androscoggin River in Mechanic
Falls played a major paper industry role around the time of the
transition from rag to wood fiber.
Early issues of this newspaper were among the users of that local
product which had a significant national reputation for excellence.
It was the Eagle Mill Paper Works where tons of rags arrived for
transformation into paper in the 1850s. Descriptions of the process
were printed in a ...