Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill

Bill and I went to Washougal, just the neighboring town east of Camas, which is a neighboring town east of Vancouver.  Camas and Washougal  sort of run together actually.  We went to a furniture store, which is actually a very nice store in Washougal, and we found an apartment sized sofa for our "family room".  It's a very small space and a full sized sofa just won't fit. So we were happy to find something we liked.  On the way back, I snapped this of the mill from the car.  The mill has been here a long time, with several different owners.  As is typical of paper mills, there is, shall we say, rather a pungent oder that accompanies the production of paper products.  There have been many improvements to that, and it isn't nearly as obnoxious as it once was.  The price of doing business, I guess.    Side bar:  I worked at the Georgia-Pacific building in downtown Portland when I met and then married Bill.  Then G-P packed up their main offices and moved to Georgia. 


Camas Mill Timeline
1884
Columbia River Paper Company was formed.
1905
Crown Paper Company of Oregon City merges with Columbia River Paper Company to form Crown Columbia Paper Company.
1914
Crown Columbia merges with Willamette Paper to form Crown Willamette Paper Company, the second largest papermaker in the world.
1928
Crown Willamette merges with Zellerbach Paper to become Crown Zellerbach.
1941
The machine shops were converted to manufacture shipyard parts for World War II.
1986
The Camas Mill becomes a subsidiary of James River Corporation.
1997
James River merges with Fort Howard to become Fort James Corporation.
2000
Georgia-Pacific acquires the Fort James Corporation.
2005
Koch Industries, Inc. purchases Georgia-Pacific.