page_title: Paper mill
section_title: History of paper mill
hierarchical_section_title: Paper mill / History of paper mill
caption_attribution_description: English: Forest Fibre Company (built in 1877, burnt in 1898) Berlin, New Hampshire
context_page_description: A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt, all paper in a paper mill was made by hand, one sheet at a time, by specialized laborers.
context_section_description: Historical investigations into the origin of the paper mill are complicated by differing definitions and loose terminology from modern authors: Many modern scholars use the term to refer indiscriminately to all kinds of mills, whether powered by humans, by animals or by water. Their propensity to refer to any ancient paper manufacturing centre as a "mill", without further specifying its exact power drive, has increased the difficulty of identifying the particularly efficient and historically important water-powered type.
caption: A mid-19th century paper mill, the Forest Fibre Company, in Berlin, New Hampshire
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