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Founding the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company William G. Luke [ 1 ] (28 May 1829 — 24 November 1912) [ 2 ] was an American businessman who founded the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company, the forerunner of Meadwestvaco Corporation, in 1888 at Piedmont, West Virginia and Luke, Maryland , United States.
The mill provided cross-ties to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as it pushed its rails westward through the Piedmont area of what is now West Virginia. [7] When the railroad suspended building in the 1880s, the Davis brothers disbanded and sold their property to William Luke, who founded the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company there with his sons ...
Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by William Luke on 50 acres (202,000 m 2) of land along the Potomac River in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland). The mill in Luke remained a major economic ...
The initial step in building the Luke paper mill, a large industrial enterprise, was taken in 1888, when a charter was given for the company.
Inventory of the Oxford Paper Company Records, 1915 - 1983 in the Forest History Society Library and Archives, Durham, NC; Papers, 1972 - 1992 in the Forest History Society Library and Archives, Durham, NC; Hilroy.ca; West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Logging Photographs, 1927-1931 at James Madison University's Special Collections.
Along with neighboring Grant County, these two new counties were the first created in the state of West Virginia which itself was separated from Virginia in 1863. In 1888, William Luke established the West Virginia Paper Company (now Verso Luke Mill) on 50 acres (20 ha) of Maryland land known as West Piedmont (now Luke, Maryland, adjacent to ...
Aug. 11—LUKE — The town of Luke has been notified that a company will clear up to 55 acres at the former site of Verso Corp.'s Luke paper mill. Verso closed the plant in 2019, resulting in a ...
In 1904 the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (later known as Westvaco) built a pulp mill nearby. The new community adjacent to the mill was also named Spruce, and the original settlement was renamed "Old Spruce." The Greenbrier and Elk Railroad served the town. [2]