Great Northern Paper East Mill Tour

thanks to Robert Dewitt for donating to Medway Historic Photos & Films this historic footage & allowing me to show this...what a treasure...footage shows the paper making process from wood yard to finish product...i added music where there wasn't sound...I kept the sounds of the mill when possible so you could understand how loud it was working in the paper mills

[@mec4703]

Medway is my home town! Thanks Bobby for the memories. DWS class of "81

[@fanat_freida9275]

Thanks for great video. Would be nice to see some other info about this mill like old photo or video. I`m sure that someone has it in his archive ....

[@larrybrown9998]

Thank You so much for sharing this! Its really sad to see what the mill looks like inside after seeing this video! Unfortunately they're going to start scrapping it very soon! There are still millions of dollars worth of equipment left but they told me just a week ago all that's left is going for scrap besides the Biomass boiler,chip trailer dumpers, and the recycle building!

[@blakefiles9895]

Sad to hear they did same to our mill in luke md

[@MainelyRandy]

Thank you for posting this. This place was a part of my life and many others. Only a memory now.

[@nicatouandnewengland]

You lived here?

[@MainelyRandy]

@@nicatouandnewengland used to work there. I live outside Bangor, was a mill service engineer for Rockwell.

[@allenstandley1010]

I worked at the James River mill in OldTown from 81 to 96. Warehouse and then the converting depts. As soon as I saw the Roll Clamp truck - close to the end, I caught a wave of nostalgia. Good, hard physical work made me strong. And the friends some who are gone... Ahhh those were the days.

[@allenstandley1010]

Also; this VHS video looks as if it were recorded early 80s to early 90s.

[@docbrown6550]

I worked at a Moss Point MS Mill for 23 years, somewhat similar, they shut it down and all is left is dirt, they sold it for scrap and bulldozed it. We were a Specialized mill for creating different types of paper creating the formulas and perfecting them. Most all other mills couldn't figure out and couldn't run the paper we run. The companies we dealt with raised all kinds of Heck with the Owner of the Brand because no one else could make the quality we could, also some of the Companies we sold to supposedly went out of business trying to get other mills to make the same quality paper as ours but couldn't.

[@markdesaint-rat4905]

One of my dad's colleagues at a major midwestern university summered with his family on the islands near Norcross, Me worked construction at the East Millinocket Mill for several seasons in the late '50's early 60's. Hard to believe it's all gone. Downtown Medway had the best lobster rolls, hope that is still happening.

[@Art-gf8hp]

Does anyone know about when this video was made? Or maybe who were some of the people in it? I left East Millinocket in the fall of 1974 at the beginning of ninth grade. Still miss the town and all my old friends from there.

[@apalita91]

Hello, I want to use this video in a new documentary series but I can't seem to find the copyrights owner, would you be able to help me contact the right person? Thank you

[@n3981k]

MEDWAY!!!!!

[@nicatouandnewengland]

HELL YEAH

[@johnberger4289]

could of done without the music