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Champion International was a large paper and wood products producer based since 1980 in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] It was acquired by International Paper in 2000.. From 1893 it had been based in Hamilton, Ohio, expanding to plants in Texas and Western North Carolina by the 1930s.
Hamilton: 3: Augspurger Grist Mill: November 1, 1984 : Wayne-Madison Rd. at Woodsdale: St. Clair Township: Grist mill built in 1868 in the company town of the Augsburger Paper Company; appears to have been demolished. 4
By 1926, Champion was dispatching 18 to 20 cars of paper daily, and bringing in an average of 144 box cars and 55 coal cars each week. In 1926, HBR tracks were purchased by the B&O. By 1940, Champion’s Hamilton mill rail yards had more than 20 miles of track with several steam locomotives shuttling cars around the clock.
Sep. 16—Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill should be open by April 2022, but the country's largest indoor sports complex, which also will have a convention center, is a long way from completion, a ...
The fire at the former Beckett Paper Company building in Hamilton, a Cincinnati suburb, was reported around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Fire destroys landmark paper company factory in southwestern Ohio ...
Champion factory in 1937. Peter G. Thomson had built Champion Coated Paper Company of Hamilton, Ohio into one of largest manufacturers of paper in the United States. [10] He visited Western North Carolina in 1905 looking for a location for a pulp mill to supply his company. The area had large forests that would supply timber.
[citation needed] Some Ohio companies (including Champion Paper Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, and Armco Steel) reportedly recruited their labor force from specific counties in the mountains, and gave preference to employees' family members when hiring new workers, making out-migration from rural Appalachia easier.
One was the Beckett Paper Company, established in 1848, the oldest paper mill west of the Allegheny Mountains. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The hydraulic remained a principal source of power for Hamilton industries through the 1870s when stationary steam engines became practical and affordable.