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Pulp Non-Fiction

Harding-Jones Paper Mill

Excello, Ohio

 

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Another post from my trip to the abandoned paper mill, it was quite clear that the mill manufactured pulp to create the paper it made, nearby to this room. I thought this stack of paper rolls were interesting it's as if they were in mid-manufacture when they just up and left, leaving them behind to decay.

 

Constructed in 1856 and situated between what once was the Miami Erie canal in the rear and Main St and Cinci-Dayton Railroad in front it's easy to understand why the company was a industry leader from 1865 into the 1980s and was placed on the National Registry Of Historic Places in 1975. After speaking to a friend who grew up near the plant, it turns out it was at one time a manufacturer of paper used to print American currency. An interesting tidbit I read was that the complex it built upon the cellars of an old winery. The building was abandoned in 1990.

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