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On July 21, 2020, the town of East Millinocket purchased the Great Northern Paper site for $1.45 million, [17] and on February 10, 2021, a portion of the mill site was leased out to Standard Biocarbon Corp. to build a pyrolysis facility to convert low-grade biomass into biocarbon.
East Millinocket, Maine. ... Great Northern Paper Mill in East Milinocket. ... East Millinocket is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
It is named after Garrett (Bush) Schenck, who made a large donation to build the first Schenck High School building in 1927. Schenck, who was vice president of the International Paper mill at Rumford Falls, helped establish the first Katahdin-region paper mills in East Millinocket and Millinocket.
The town of East Millinocket is 8 miles (13 km) to the east. Millinocket is the closest town to Mount Katahdin, in Baxter State Park, 20 miles (32 km) to the northwest. At an elevation of 5,270 feet (1,610 m), its summit is the highest point in Maine and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
Great Northern Paper Company, East Millinocket, Maine [318] (closed 2011) [319] Green Bay Packaging, Green Bay, Wisconsin [320] Green Bay Packaging, Morrilton, Arkansas [321] Hollingsworth & Vose, Walpole, Massachusetts; International Paper, Memphis, Tennessee [322] Albany Paper Mill, Albany, Oregon (Closed in 2009, demolished in 2012) [323 ...
Until 1971 the West Branch was a main thoroughfare for the Great Northern Paper Company to sluice its logs to its mill in Millinocket, Maine. In 1971 Great Northern opened the Golden Road (Maine) for transporting the logs. The road parallels the river. The paper industry has been greatly diminished and the Millinocket mill was torn down in 2013 ...
Inbound chemicals and outbound paper from mills on the Penobscot River at Millinocket and East Millinocket were major revenue sources for the BAR from 1900. [9] Another paper mill was built in Madawaska in 1925. [10] Pulpwood and wood chip shipment to the paper mills became increasingly important as potato loadings declined. [11]
The Golden Road is a 96-mile (154 km) private road built by the Great Northern Paper Company that stretches from the St. Zacharie Border Crossing to its former mill at Millinocket, Maine. The road, which parallels the West Branch of the Penobscot River , was built between 1969 and 1972 to bring raw wood to the mill from the company's 2.1 ...