The Brown Company :from North Conway sawmill to world-leading paper manufacturer : Historical New Hampshire/ John K. Rule.

Title:

The Brown Company :from North Conway sawmill to world-leading paper manufacturer : Historical New Hampshire/ John K. Rule.

Author:

Rule, John K.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2014.

Physical Description:

p. 3-49.

Source:

Vol. 68, Nos. 1 and 2 (Fall/Winter 2014) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

The article discusses the history of the Brown Company, a New Hampshire paper manufacturer, focusing on its development from a single sawmill to a chain of paper mills. Other topics include the construction of a sawmill in 1852 by Maine businessmen including John Bundy Brown, Josiah Stevens, and Nathan Winslow, information on the papermaking process and the demand for paper in the U.S., and the improvement of technology and processes by the Brown Company to modernize papermaking.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Paper mills History. , Sawmills History 19th century. , Papermaking. , Manufacturing processes History.

Locations:

New Hampshire History.

Organizations:

Brown Company (Berlin, N.H.).

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