Editor's note: With the closing of the Pixelle paper mill in Chillicothe on Aug. 10, we are looking back at the history of the paper mill. This is a column by Tom Breeden originally published in 2021.

In a previous article we traced the evolution of papermaking in the Scioto River Valley of Ohio from Ingham Brothers on the Kinnikinnick Creek in 1810 to the mill on south end of Chillicothe that, ...