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Breeden column: Papermaking in the Scioto Valley
Tom Breeden
The history of Ohio’s Scioto River Valley in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century cannot be understood without understanding the role of papermaking in the area. Southeastern Ohio is an ideal location for making paper since water and trees are in abundance. A deep underground aquifer, Teays River, supplies Chillicothe with an almost inexhaustible supply of water and surrounding forests supply a mix of hardwood and softwood trees needed for printing paper manufacturing.
Historical records tell us that the first paper mill in Scioto Valley was established in 1810 on Kinnikinnick Creek on land leased from John Crouse near community of Kinnikinnick. Brothers Hezekiah and Isaiah Ingham, Quakers from Pennsylvania, established this small paper mill making paper from linen and cotton rags. The Inghams placed the following ad in Scioto Gazette in 1810, “Wanted – Clean Linen and Cotton Rags” offering three ce