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Highlights
- This is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill.
- Author(s): Carroll C Jones
- 190 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
Thomson's Pulp Mill is a well-researched and detailed account of the Champion Fibre Company's humble beginnings in Canton, North Carolina. History with pictures spanning over 100 years.
Book Synopsis
This is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and letters, old journals and photographs, memoirs, and interviews with former and current employees and their families. In this book, Thomson's Pulp Mill, readers are presented with the intriguing story of the Champion Fibre Company's original construction, and treated with approximately one hundred contemporaneous photos illustrating in magnificent detail the construction of Thomson's massive brick buildings beside the Pigeon River. Peter G.Thomson came to the western North Carolina mountains more than a hundred years ago in search of a proper site to build his mammoth pulp mill. This book contains the story of the building of the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina between 1905 and 1908. Also included are many old construction photographs that illustrate the immense effort that took place on the bank of the Pigeon River.
Review Quotes
"Over the last several years Canton has experienced a rebirth aff¬ectionately known as the 'Canton Comeback;' a renaissance of not only new businesses, but an attitude that a mill town still has a place in the 21st century. In his book, ¬Thomson's Pulp Mill, Carroll C. Jones--a local Canton boy, historian, and award-winning author--has provided readers a well-researched and detailed account of the Champion Fibre Company's humble beginnings. While reading this book, I challenge you to take a pause and close your eyes. If you do, you will hear the sounds of the factory, smell the woodchips, and imagine yourself being in that time and place, more than a century ago. e ability to do so is not just a testament to the story of our mill and town, but to Mr. Jones' fantastic writing." Zeb Smathers, Mayor of the Town of Canton, North Carolina
"Educated as an engineer, Carroll C. Jones--a historian, an award-winning author, and a retired Champion employee who grew up in the shadow of the vast factory--has endeavored to uncover the story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill. rough extensive research, he has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and letters, old journals and photographs, memoirs, and interviews with former and current employees and their families. In his book, Th¬omson's Pulp Mill, readers are presented with the intriguing story of the Champion Fibre Company's original construction, and treated with approximately one hundred contemporaneous photos illustrating in magnificent detail the construction of Thomson's massive brick buildings beside the Pigeon River." Edie Hutchins Burnette, -- Award Winning Author of Mountain Echoes