Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper Co. plant exterior — 9/24/1928 — #194_1
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The Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper plant was opened in 1929. In 1937 three Olympic Peninsula mills (Port Angeles, Shelton, and Grays Harbor) joined together to form Rayonier, Inc. but the paper from Grays Harbor continued to be sold under the Hammermill name. The pulp and paper operations were spun off into separate operations in 1959, and a few years later Hammermill bought back into the paper mill in a joint venture with ITT Rayonier. International Paper bought Hammermill in 1986, but the mill was put up for sale in 1992. When a buyer could not be found, the mill was closed in October 1992, throwing 650 area residents out of work. In December of 1993, a group of local investors restarted the paper mill portion of the plant as Grays Harbor Paper, L.P. producing fine papers from purchased bleached kraft wood pulp.
