Home > Library Company of Philadelphia > Exhibition Catalogs >     The Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America
	Our Price: $15.00 Year: 1966 Pages: 68 Binding Paperback Product Code: 0914076841

Description   by James N. Green. On September 29, 1690 the papermaking business began in British North America. On that day William Rittenhouse, papermaker, joined with William Bradford, printer, and others in an investment company to lease land with the intention of building a paper mill. The land was in Roxborough, just southwest of the boundary of Germantown in the county of Philadelphia, by the banks of the tributary of Wissahickon Creek later known as Paper Mill Run. The mill was erected and in operation by 1691 and for almost 40 years thereafter the Rittenhouse family were the only papermakers in America. ...The purpose of this booklet is to celebrate the tercentenary of the American paper industry by retelling this story, based on a fresh examination of the documents left by the major actors and a new look at the place where it all began. (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia and Friends of Historic Rittenhouse Town, 1990.)

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