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Title: Poplar, Forest Paper Co., Yarmouth, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society

Date: circa 1880

Location: Yarmouth

Media: Photograph

Title: Forest Paper Co. workers, Yarmouth, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society

Date: circa 1890

Location: Yarmouth

Media: Photograph

Title: Forest Paper Co., Yarmouth, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Yarmouth

Media: Photograph

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.