Connecticut Water Trails Association
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Connecticut Water Trails Program History Of Connecticut's Water Trails History of Mills In Connecticut
About
A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibers
such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier
Machine or similar apparatus.
Water-Powered Mills
Due to their noise and smell, papermills were required to be erected some
distance from towns
Paper mills can be fully integrated mills or nonintegrated mills. Integrated mills consist of a pulp mill and a paper mill on the same site. Such mills receive logs or wood chips and produce paper. It is a common misconception that paper mills are sources of odors. Pulp mills and the pulping section of integrated mills (particularly if using the kraft process) commonly have associated odors; nonintegrated mills purchase wood pulp, usually in dry bales known as market pulp, and produce little, if any, odor.
Paper Mills In Connecticut:
Chaplin Peter Lyon set up a paper mill in the south part of the town.
Norwich Connecticut's first paper mill was built at Yantic Falls in 1766. The textile industry dominated industrial development in the 19th century. Mill villages were created along the Yantic River and Shetucket River, tributaries of the Thames River.
The Naugatuck River was a great source of power for industry in Seymour. Its falls and numerous brooks and tributaries provided much-desired power for grist mills, corn mills, paper mills and blacksmith shops
In the paper mill industry, Seymour's mills were the first in Connecticut to use inexpensive straw to make paper
Trumbull Fairchild (Paper) Mill was built at a place commonly called since 1674, the Falls of the Pequonnock River
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