Merrimac Paper

Submitted by Barbara Brown on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 17:08

The unoccupied Merrimac Paper Company, once one of many paper companies located in Lawrence, burned on November 6-7, 2009. The structure is located on the South Canal in Lawrence.

Workers at Merrimac Paper, 1910. Jack Driscoll is 4th from the right.

Maurice Dorgan writes in Lawrence Yesterday and Today, 1918: "Merrimack(sic) Paper Company - Established in 1895; manufactures paper of all kinds; weekly output, 125 tons; employs, 275; weekly payroll, $5,000.00; assessed valuation of property for 1917 $295,400"

Below is an image from the 1896 Atlas of Lawrence, Plate 12

Merrimack Paper
Proposed Demolition of Paper Mill