Ballston Spa ~ New York ~ George West ~Former Paper Bag Manufacture

Replaced the Cotton Bag with a Square Bottom Paper Bag.

In Ballston Spa West gradually acquired nine water-powered mills on Kayaderosseras Creek by 1879 manufacturing cotton, paper, and paper bags.

 

West was called "The Paper Bag King" because he was one of the first men in the country to manufacture paper bags at a time when most bags were made from cotton

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