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10024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE the area of Commerce and Industry, for its significance and association with the industrial and bag manufacturing facilities in the United States. The period of significance begins in 1859 sold to the Chase Bag Company.
The Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory is located along the northern bank of Constructed in 1859 as a water powered paper mill, this property came under the ownership of Fitch and Alfred Adams in 1868, two Cleveland industrialists who converted it to a manila rope During World War 1,the War Industries Board classified the Adams Bag Company as essential to the national welfare for its production of manila rope paper bags, in which vast quantities of the Department of Commerce, the War Industries Board, the United States Railroad the company out of Chagrin Falls and into Cleveland, of our skilled and experienced and well trained workers who own homes at Chagrin Falls and who people have been loyal to us, now we will be loyal to them. We are not interested in taking our containers.
Continuation Sheet flour and other cereal products were shipped.The company played an important part in history of the Adams Bag Company as the largest manila rope paper mill and bag contributing historic resources represent one of the longest continuously operating paper mil Adams Bag Company (Oct 1990) continued to maintain an important and close relationship with the local Chagrin Falls From its establishment in 1868,as the Adams Co.and later as the Adams Bag Company,it manufacturing factory in the United States by 1887 and the continued use of the property as a paper manufacturing facility for 145 years. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 10 November 1887). The when William T. Upham constructed what would become the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill continued to prosper with its production of fine paper, paper bags and paper shipping today?
The human element is more important to this Organization than its physical facilities. Our to 1932 when the Adams Bag Company was formally dissolved as a corporation and the assets and methods of efficiency in production and owned patents on many of their machines and assisting the United States Food Administration and was subsidized by the State Department, million" manila paper bags. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 13 March 1919, Adams ca. 1899, 49). 1923). Page_ OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Falls area, which during its founding yearsin 1842, had as many as nine mills located along its riverbanks. (Gorretta 2004, 35).
EARLY MILL HISTORY [Chagrin] river banks" was attractive to early pioneers, who first arrived to the wilderness of what approximately one mile stretch of the Chagrin River. During the founding years between 1833 business annually using a 24 foot dam with a reservoir of 25 acres. (Brainerd 1842-43, 12). His axes helped clear the timber of the Western Reserve for settlement and were also sold in the western territories. (Gorretta 2004, 36). His business came to an end with a decline in the disrepair until it was purchased in 1863 by Charles Force and refurbished as a woolen mill. 1863). The woolen mill was moved downstream in 1892 to become part of the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory, on the west side of Cleveland Street. (Exponent relocation of the Cleveland Street Bridge.
dam of 21 feet, which would later become the site of the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and were, "completing one of the finest flouring mills in northern Ohio...Their stone mill and dam, perhaps are not surpassed in the western states, for beauty of materials and in the manner of piece of masonry." (Brainerd 1842-43, 12). The third mill (Mill & Dam #3) downstream was a paper mill and saw mill owned by Chagrin Falls founder Noah Graves. To power his mill, he constructed a dam of 12 feet located just above the Main Street bridge at the town center.
This mill produced straw paper and wrapping paper until 1842 when the mill became Graves & Sears, co-owned by Charles Sears, and 1843 to 1888 the mill changed multiple hands and evolved into both a paper and flour sack Page Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company The site of the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory "between the tops of the NPS Form 10-900-a River.(Blakeslee 1874,1).The settlement of Chagrin Falls was founded in 1833 along an The Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory is the last remaining mill in the Chagrin and 1842, Chagrin Falls grew to an established population of 601 people dependent upon the the basic necessities of the new settlement and region.
The first mill (Mill & Dam #1- Continuation Sheet - Topo Map of Mills & Dams along Chagrin River) was that of Hervey White who operated an axe factory, saw mill, and other buildings at supply of timber for the manufacture of axe handles. The factory and mill subsequently fell into (Cuyahoga County Deed from Hervey & Gerusha White to Charles Force dated September 16, Sack Factory. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal, reported in 1842 that Bliss and Mayhew would become Chagrin Falls by 1833, part of Range 9, Township 7 of the Connecticut Western mills of the Chagrin River. (Brainerd 1842-43, 12-13). By 1842, settlers had constructed nine began making writing paper and then printing paper (Chagrin Falls Township History, 8). From manufacturer operating as the Chagrin Falls Paper Company by 1873.
The property was sold what came to be known as Whitesburg.The Whitesburg mill was generating $20,ooo in NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number 37). In 1931, the buildings that housedthe paper mill and saw mill were torn down by the A fourth mill (Mill & Dam #4) was powered by a small dam and mill race built beneath the Main in 1836. (Brainerd 1842-43, 12; Gorretta, 38). In 1842, it was reported that this mill was flouring David Spears in 1867. Washington Gates, his son William, and his son Holsey continued to by Washington Gates in 1874, remains today at 53 North Main Street, known as the "Popcorn on the site for close to 100 years. (Gorretta 2004, 38).
A fifth mill (Mill & Dam #5) with a dam of nine feet operated the woolen factory of clothier C.& Cornelius Northrop openedtheir woodenware factoryonthe south side of the river north of where West Washington and Water Street meet. Bullard and Northrup manufactured spinning wheels, reels, and wheat headers as well as a general wood-turning business. After Northrop the company added kitchenware to their product line including rolling pins, steak pounders, potato mashers and butter molds. John S, Bullard held the patent on a butter mold and the necessary machine for manufacture. In 1877, it was estimated that the company would produce close to a quarter million butter molds. John S. Bullard is credited with taking the butter mold flood severely damaged the mill. In 1895 it ceased operation due to a shortage of lumber and a Flood of 1913 washed the remaining factory mill buildings downstream.
(Gorretta 2004, 39). and tin mill on the property which he sold to the Reverend Benajah Williams and his son-in-law Henry Neff. (Gorretta 40).In 1844 after a flood destroyed the buildings, Williams sold the water rights to his son John W. Williams. John W. Williams built a new dam and machine shop and with products including plows, farm implements, iron grates wagon wheel hubs, cook stove. Later products in 1857 included seamless thimble skeins, wrought iron axels and oil drilling irons a day. After suffering a devastating flood in 1883, the mill was rebuilt. In 1889, a fire Page 2004, 38).
operate the flouring mill under the name"Chagrin Falls Mills."The mill showroom constructed Paper Mill and Sack Factory Curtis 1842-43,12,13;Gorretta 2004,40).In 1842,Curtiss Bullard and Adams Bag Company sold his interest, Bullard's sons John S.and Orson came into the business.In the late 1850's, March purchased an interest in the mill and it became known as"Bullard & March."In 1883,a a considerable quantity of wheat for the New York market under the brand "J.K. Halleck & Co." Shop." In 1931, the Village of Chagrin Falls purchased and razed the mill which had operated shared water power with the wooden ware factory operated on the opposite side of the river by lessening interest in butter molds. The wood turning machinery was sold.
Finally, the Great The sixth mill (Mill & Dam #6), "Neff & Williams," utilized a nine foot dam that provided power for a saw mill and furnace. (Brainerd 1842-43,13). Samuel Nettleton ran a small sawmill, furnace product, sad irons. By 1880, the Williams Company employed 75 men and produced 1,500 sad destroyed the entire Williams foundry and the community came together to assist in the rebuild. Village of Chagrin Falls to make way for the Riverside Park, which remains today. (Gorretta (Brainerd 1842-43, 12). The mill changed hands and was purchased by Washington Gates and NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number However, with a second fire in 1892, A.C.
Williams decided to move the company to Ravenna The eighth mill (Mill & Dam #8) was the turning works of E. Goodwin with a 5 foot dam. (Brainerd 1842-43, 13). This mill and dam no longer remain. Dam #9). (Brianerd 1842-43, 13; Gorretta 41). In 1853, Adin Gaunt purchased the woolen mill which was called Maple Grove Mill. Gaunt was a talented millwright adept at designing and Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory The Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory was built in 1859 upon the foundations Weston to convert the flouring mill into a woolen mill. By 1850,the US Census indicated that Bliss, Pool & Weston were operating a water powered "woolen factory" capitalized with $20,000 and producing annually 75,000 yards of cloth valued at $37,500, employing 15 men and 10 women.
At the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in 1856, the Bliss & Pool woolen mill was sold Ohio dated July 26,1856; Blakeslee 1874, 32). The Lake Erie paper mill would be short lived as reported in the Cleveland Leader on Feb. 12, 1858, "Fire was discovered yesterday in one of were books and papers..."(Cleveland Leader [Cleveland] 12 February 1858). Chagrin Falls citizen and local builder William T. Upham purchased the paper mill property and acres. Together with the privilege of keeping up a dam where the same now stands across the The Cuyahoga County, Ohio tax records show that W.T. Upham rebuilt on the site in 1859, indicating an assessed value of $2990 for the tax year 1860, from $672 in 1859. In 1864, W.T. paper mill. After making substantial improvements in 1867, Davis & Son declared bankruptcy and the property was ordered for sale. In 1868, W.T.
Upham paired up with two Cleveland industrialists and paper bag manufacturers, Alfred and Fitch Adams, along with Thomas Phillips. (Cuyahoga County Deed Robert F. Payne, bankruptcy assignee for Davis & Son, James Davis and Dennis Davis to W.T. Upham, Thomas 1859). Page Continuation Sheet longer remain. of the earlier Bliss & Mayhew flouring mill using the existing dam.Bliss and Mayhew had Adams Bag Company repairing machinery used in the mills on the river.(Goretta 2004,44).This mill and dam no Further down stream was a seventh (Mill & Dam #7) unoccupied mill with a 14 foot dam constructed in 1842. (Brainerd 1842-43, 13). This mill and dam no longer remain. Finally, a nine foot dam powered two looms to operate the woolen mill of O. & J.N. Bliss (Mill & constructed a substantial mill and dam, but floods and drought presented challenges.
(Gorretta Chagrin River fourteen feet four inches with the privilege of flowing all land said dam will cover with water." (Cuyahoga County Deed from Worthington & Morgan to W.T. Upham dated Aug. 4, adjacent lands in 1859 for $5,000 described as"all said premises supposed to contain thirty Upham conveyed a one-half interest to Dennis A.Davis for $10,oo0,who again operated a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page Phillips and Alfred & Fitch Adams dated Aug. 13, 1868). They reworked the mill, upgrading the to the mill, making room for the paper engine to be used for the manufacture of fine paper. The of Akron, Ohio.
(Cuyahoga County Deed from Thomas Phillips to Fitch and Alfred Adams dated New owners of the mill, Fitch and Alfred Adams, were the enterprising grandsons of Asahel with his brother Jabez, went on to acquire land from the Connecticut Land Company in 1795 as their General Agent for the sale of their Western Reserve lands in Ohio. (Adams 1899 & Conlin1968).In the summer of 1802, grandfather Asahel Adams moved from Connecticut to the Western Reserve "then an almost unbroken wilderness" with 10 children. One of his children was 16 year old Asael, who would be the father of Fitch and Alfred Adams. (Adams 1899, 16). Fitch and Alfred's father, Asael, became a leading member of the Warren and Trumbull county contained the whole of the Western Reserve, with Warren as the county seat. Into this important and prominent Western Reserve family were born Fitch Adams in 1827 and Alfred Adams in 1833.
(Adams 1899, 25). Upon maturity, they both moved to Cleveland, Ohio Bag Company, into the largest manila rope paper mill and bag manufacturer in the United Cincinnati formed a bag manufacturing firm in Cleveland under the name of Adams, Jewett & the Northern states, the price of it advancing tremendously thereby pushing manufacturers to and, as it turned out, more durable raw material. Manila rope paper bags were claimed to better protect the contents from "dust, moisture, odors and contamination of all kinds." (Exponent States. Adams of Connecticut.Asahel Adams served in the Revolutionary War under George the Chagrin Falls paper mill.In 1858, Fitch and Alfred Adams and Joseph A. Jewett of March 9,1869;Adams 1899,unnumbered page).In 1870,W.T.Upham sold his interest in the and Alfred Adams dated December 10, 1870).
Washington at Valley Forge and afterward returned to his home in Connecticut. Asahel, along community supporting the essential elements of an early settlement. Trumbull County until 1809 the new commercial center of the Western Reserve by 1858.As products of a forward thinking, Co. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 13 March 1919, Adams ca. 1899, 49). The firm had a factory in Cleveland and another one in Cincinnati for the manufacture of cotton paper and burlap bags for machinery and production for the manufacture of manila rope flour shipping bags. The requires heavy and efficient engines, and to meet requirements, the whole building has been mill to Alfred and Fitch Adams for $8,000. (Cuyahoga County Deed from W.T. Upham to Fitch and became proprietors of the Erie Company.
The Erie Company in turn hired Simon Perkins and moved into the age of industrialization growing the Adams Co., later known as the Adams packing flour. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 1919) During the Civil War, cotton became scarce in NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 2 August 1923) continued to use the water power of the Chagrin River to operate their factory.
The 1870 US Census reported that Adams, Upham & Co., manufacturers of paper in Chagrin Falls, Ohio were well capitalized with $50,000 and producing annually 270tons of manila paper valued at $54, 175, and powered with 60 hp of water and 20 hp of steam to operate two wheels and one December 1870, the Adams brothers were sole owners of the Mill becoming known as the Paper manufacturing was made possible by the increased efficiency and production capability window to wall ratio to allow for maximum light exposure into interior spaces and to better light production space required for paper making. The coursed rubble river stone wall material of the Adams mill, was also likely used by W.T. Upham for construction in response to the fire that burned the previous mill.
The stone was likely taken from the stone quarry of Hannibal Goodell, located just to the west of the mill along the south bank of the Chagrin River.A high window to wall ratio is seen in the Adams mill with 16 rectangular 9/9 windows located along its southern façade. A pitched roof, trapdoor monitor and two cupolas were constructed in ca. 1888, but no longer remain. INDUSTRIALZATION 1870-1898 1851 and by 1860, five railroad lines operated in and out of Cleveland. (Miller and Wheeler located in Solon, four miles distant to the southwest of Chagrin Falls. The Adams Co.
therefore had to haul materials back and forth over mud roads by horse and wagon between Chagrin newspaper the Exponent reported that the water wheel at the Adam's Paper Mill had broken Page Continuation Sheet engine to run one double cylinder, paper machines, and four rag engine machines.By Adams Bag Company stone construction was preferred for industrialized mills to allow not only for better fire [Chagrin Falls],1919).The Exponent reported that Alfred Adams claimed to have first Adams Co. resulting from the introduction of industrialization and the steam turbine. Paper mills at the advent of the Industrial Age in America were started by businessmen, such as the Adams construction of mills was also affected by this shift in market and production capacity. Smaller industrial buildings to accommodate increased production capabilities.
Earlier frame mills were vulnerable to fires, started by sparks from the machinery, especially in paper mills such as the The business was not without its challenges. The first railroad came to the City of Cleveland in Lake Erie Paper Company which used rags and pulp in the production process. Masonry or eyebrow monitors were often cut into each side of the root. (Breisch and Perrin 1988, 40) The and woolen mill building located on the property, because of the increased machinery and 1997, 50,70). However,until1877,the nearest railhead to Cleveland from Chagrin Falls was Falls and [Chagrin Falls]2 August 1923).In January 1876, the local NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number roads are so bad that it is almost impossible to get over to Solon." Economic depressions, bankruptcies, and a flood of mergers of railroad companies across the region had slowed construction of a railroad to Chagrin Falls. After several failed attempts, Western Railroad in Solon. (Gorretta 2004, 75-77). Not surprisingly, Alfred Adams was on railroad committee. reported as the Adams mill was updated, repaired and adapted with the latest in machinery for was apparent in the layout of the Paper Mill building. Among the improvements, the Adams dam was rebuilt to 22 ft.
in 1878 "the best ever built at that place."By 1880, the US Census reported that the Company was powered by a Leffel water turbine, a state of the art hydraulic turbine patented in 1862 by James Leffel of Springfield, Ohio. (Becker 1998, 201). In order to improve efficiency and protect from outside weather, a 73 ft. masonry arched tunnel six feet wide and nine feet high was constructed in 1882 connecting the [Chagrin Falls]27 July 1882). In September,1882 the Exponent reported that the Adams Mill August, 1884, the Exponent was reporting that "It is now one of the largest sack manufacturers in the U.S." necessary need to the growing population of America during the Industrial Age was the forte of Alfred Adams as the inventor, including: 1. The Satchel Bottom Paper Bag, 1870. 2. A Specialized Table for making Paper Bags, 1871.
Page Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company The Adams Co.was no exception.By 1883,Alfred Adams held seven key patents on paper invention and the proliferationofpatentsprevailed from 1865to 1991,149,152).
gauge railroad to Chagrin Falls in 1877,to run to the standard gauge Atlantic and Great and "The mill will be closed for awhile as the company has no supply of coal on hand and the Riding the wave of invention of the industrial era and improving upon packaging of a basic and production and the arrangement of processes for the achievement of maximum production at paper mill locatedon the east side of Cleveland Street to the Sack Factory located on the west side with a miniature railway to transport stock material and for use as a walkway to the sack machine that would allow production of 15,000 sacks per day the only downside reported was "may be styled the largest manufactory in the place, employing as it does 55 operatives and turning over $200,000 worth of goods per annum..their goods enjoy the reputation of being as With a railroad depot now in Chagrin Falls, the Adams brothers focused on creating a paper bag manufacturing facility that would come to surpass all others.
The rationalization of factory "that it makes necessary the discharge of four or five nimble fingered" workers.(Exponent good as skill, fine machinery and good material will make and are sold all over the country. By NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga County, Ohio 3. A Scalloped Topped Paper Bag, 1876. 5. A Paper Tube Machine, 1878. 6. An Improved Satchel Bottom Paper Bag, 1879. 7. A Paper Bag making Machine and Paper Bag Manufacturing Equipment, 1883. 1900,the federal government pursued a policy of laissez faire. No laws were enacted restricting of affordable goods, a rise in real wages and improved working conditions, for many workers the social, health and eventually economic costs were high.
Industrial workers were helpless whenever economic panic or depression ensued or a new technological invention displaced earned twenty cents an hour, while unskilled workers made about ten cents and most companies did not permit employee vacations. At the mercy of the law of supply and demand, 1900, the number of working women rose from 15% to 20%, while the number of children who 1991,150, 153, 160-161). It appears that the employees of the Adams Co. were valued and treated well by the recognition, company amenities, and lifetime service awards, as reported by the Exponent. For many, their job lasted a working lifetime. According to the 1880 US Census, the Adams Co. employed six males above 16 years, and, 20 females above 15 years at an average daily wage of 50 cents for an ordinary worker and $1.33 for a skilled mechanic.
The Accidents at the mill were given detailed coverage in the Exponent, but were relatively rare in 1880's, the Exponent carried editorials on the stench emanating from the paper mill pond (Gorretta 2004, 139). As the 19t century drew to a close, fewer and larger companies controlled a greater share of monopolists, was usually crushed in a ruthless price war. One very effective method was the November 3,1887 reported that the"paper bag manufacturers of the country have formed a November 1887). Page business practices to protect the large supply of laborersrequired to support industrialization.
Section number the business creating monopolized industry.Any company refusing to follow the lead of the occurrence.Air and water pollution were byproducts of the industrialized mill and in the late them.Factory work was monotonous and the number of industrial accidents was high.Many Co.'s mill one day last week making $2.10.Any labor disputes at the mill were quickly resolved. originatorsof the scheme and leading spirits in its Falls]3 Paper Mill and Sack Factory During this period of rapid industrial expansion and growth in the United States from 1860 to While Americans generally enjoyed an improved standard of living through the mass production laborers suffered from illnesses acquired at the workplace from chemicals, dust, and other workers took whatever wages, hours and conditions of work they could find.
Between 1870 and worked increased by almost 130%, but both received less pay than adult male workers. (Estrin combination of a very solid character in the form of a trust which controls nearly all the paper sack factories of the country. " Adams & Co. "who own the best bag machinery extant, are the 4. A Paper Manufacturing Process and Apparatus for making the same, 1878. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Section number The paper bag trust became known at the American Bag Company with capital stock of $2 million and held a 25 year lease on all the bag manufacturers within it. Alfred Adams was the Chairman of the Executive Committee. The Exponent reported in 1887, that the Adams Co.
"is second to none while their paper bag machinery is the finest in the world and which really by its Chagrin Falls.....Chagrin Falls mills will be made the manufactory of the trust, and their capacity will be greatly increased." The Exponent editorialized that it: may come to pass that all branches of human industry will be forced into this unnatural substantially here- what is to become of the foundation stone of the social fabric - the left?" (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 10 November1887). No more reports appeared in the Exponent on the American Bag Company trust after its initial On May 16,1888,Fitch Adams passed away at his home at 1358 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland. owner of Adams Co, and atthe same time headed the Cleveland based Adams, Jewett& Co. of Adams, Jewett & Co. and the Chagrin Falls, Adams Co. manufacturing operations. (Adams 1899, 56).
In 1890, the standard gauge Cleveland, Canton & Southern railroad arrived in Chagrin Falls, no Corliss engine was also installed. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 1890). In February 1891, Fitch Mygatt Adams, son of Alfred Adams, was 33 years old and had been Page 1888). (Oct 1990) Continuation Sheet Adams Co. Mill.The Adams Co. was seeking to build a stone upper dam and rebuild an Cuyahoga County, Ohio Adams Bag Company business and by 1890,Adams Co. was already planning on leasing the Chagrin Falls Woolen three water wheels arrived for installation in the Spring after the weather improved.A new longer necessitating a switch to the standard gauge railroad in Solon.This was a boon to from 30,000 to 40,000[bags] in ten hours and are not in any factory in the world outside of perfection in operation rendered the trust necessary to save competing companies from being driven out of business.
The Company controls the patents on these machines, which make "depreciates 'trusts' and combinations on general principles, believing them to be formation. The ever watchful Exponent did however report as capital was continually invested back into the Adams Co. and another surge of updates, new machines and rebuilding occurred At his father's death, Henry Ranney Adams resigned his commission in the military at Fort Meade, Dakota and came home to Cleveland to become superintendent and general manager Mill property at Whitesburg, located adjacent up the Chagrin River to the northeast of the manager and superintendent at the Adams Co. for six years. While checking the newly repaired pernicious and injurious to the community, but, in this age of combination and corner, it the great struggle and forms an intelligent strong offensive and defensive combination.
Falls]24 May 1888;The Cleveland Social Directory).He had been co- NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number embankment at upper pond reservoir after heavy rains, he fell from his boat into a heavy current Councilman and lived in the Joseph O'Malley House, 1875 at 68 Water Street, Chagrin Falls. mill reservoir was disassembled, moved and attached to the west side of the Sack Factory. equipment of this plant is pronounced by experts to be in the finest mechanical condition... (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 28 December 1896).
Therefore, upon announcement on April 1, 1897 that the Adams Mill would be shut down indefinitely due to a business failure, the "citizens of Chagrin Falls were dumbfounded." It "for had become successful, however, Adams, Jewett & Co. with offices on Academy Street in Co. were being drawn off to support the ventures of Adams, Jewett & Co. In March of 1897, the George March Jr., then President of the Chagrin Falls Banking Company, was quickly appointed. By the next week it was reported that George March had taken control of the Adams Adams, Jewett & Company from Cleveland and removed the entire manufacturing operation to the Chagrin Falls plant. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 2 August 1923). Due to his failing eyesight Alfred Adams retired from the business in 1898 at the age of 65 years. He had lived in Chagrin Falls at the Charles Sears - Alfred Adams House, 1844, located 3, 1878).
He remained in Chagrin Falls until 1884 when he moved back to Wilson Ave. in Page Paper Mill and Sack Factory running."The sound of the big whistle Monday morning was a joyful one to our citizens.." Cleveland.(Cuyahoga County Deed from Alfred and Elizabeth Adams to Clinton Eggleston and was carried over the 24 ft. dam to his tragic death. The power of the river could not be Improvement to the plant continued through the Panic of 1893. The old woolen mill at the upper some time past has had on its payroll at this place upwards of 50 employees, many having been Cleveland had "been more speculative in character, encounter[ing] years in which heavy losses should be appointed to continue operation of the Chagrin Falls Paper Mill and Sack Factory. Sack Factory and that work had again resumed - while it was not sure how it would be kept (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 8 April 1897).
March ran the Paper Mill successfully until December with capital stock of $150,000. Among the incorporators was Luther Allen, who would serve as dated March 19, 1884; The Cleveland Social Directory). He spent his last years living in (Exponent [Chagrin Falls], 19 February 1891, Exponent [Chagrin Falls], 24 June 1875). last week was the largest daily average on that grade of paper in that extensive establishment's were sustained." (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 2 August 1923, 1 April 1897).
The profits of Adams Adams, Jewett firm was liquidated to pay off the debt, and heavy mortgages were filed 1898, when incorporation papers were issued to the new Adams Bag Company of Chagrin Falls the new president and Henry Ranney Adams, son of Fitch Adams, serving as manager and at 115 East Summit in Chagrin Falls, purchasing this home in 1878 from the estate of earlier mill underestimated.He had been an important member of the community,served asa Village history.For one machine mill it was the largest of any paper mill in the U.S. the whole Falls] 1 April 1897).Adams & Co. convinced the court that a receiver NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page Cleveland at the home of his daughter Bertha Adams Wellman where he passed away in 1906. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 17 May 1906). The Adams brothers had created a paper bag manufacturing dynasty. In writing the Adams family genealogy in 1899, Comfort Adams, brother to Fitch and Alfred, stated that it is an irregular factthat almostthe sole of the paper bag industry of the State of Ohio is directly controlled and managed by the descendents of Asahel Adams, Sr. including grandsons Alfred and Fitch Adams. The Adams Bag Company of Clevelandby 1899 was managed by Henry Raymond, grandsons of Susan Adams Patterson.
The Crescent Bag Company of Cincinnati THE PROGRESSIVE YEARS 1898-1926 With the retirement of Alfred Adams in 1898, reorganization of the Company and the election of living on Euclid Ave. and had served as president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in Board of Cleveland.He was a"banker manufacturer and railroad executive, one of the most until his death in 1905 at the age of 59. His sons went on to serve the Company as directors Bag Company, which later acquired the Adams Bag Company. Under the leadership of the Allen family, the Adams Bag Company boomed as it entered the 20th century and the chimney, reinforced with steel to further increase capacity.It is 12 feet in outside diameter at mill had been significantly increased. Progressive Age.
Adams Bag Company and executives.Until 1956,Edward Bingham Allen was president and vice president of Chase 1894,was an original Trustee of the Cleveland Trust Company and had served on the Maritime In June,1910,it was reported that the Adams Bag Company is constructing "a concrete was also managed by Raymond of the same family.(Adams 1899,unnumbered page after p. useful citizens of his time." (Rose 1950,566). He served the Adams Bag Company as president reported that in place of the five existing boilers which aggregated about 700 hp, three new Luther Allen as president, a new family entered the business. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 29 Dec. steam ship manufacturer in Cleveland. He was an esteemed resident of the City of Cleveland improvements in 1906 was $150,000. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 12 November 1925). the present chimney..." (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 30 June 1910).
By July, the Company "over 400 ft.long and has a capacity of well over 1oo0 tonsof paper making fibers.The cost of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number By 1913, the Adams Bag Company had come up with another way to tap into the power of the by the Cleveland Construction Co. To construct the aqueduct, a four feet in diameter pipe was A bed ten feet wide was prepared, leading from the mill, along up the bank of the river, across a arrived for the aqueduct.
Describing them as "30 feet long and four feet in diameter, being done to form abutments to prevent earth being washed out." (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 18 By 1914 the Allen family bought out the remaining Adams family interests, but carried on the Company was determined essential to the national welfare during World War I and classified as United States Food Administration, and therefore subsidized during the War by the State Department, the Department of Commerce,the War Industries Board, the United States Railroad Administration among others. Tomeet the demand for bagproduction in1919,the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill required approximately nine tons ofpaper per day,the manufacture of which required 15 tons of old material into small pieces. After cutting, dirt was dusted out with a special machine designed to loosen, spread and clean.
The material was then moved to the Bleaching/ Rotary Cooker Room hours, during which time the fiber was in continual motion in a revolving boiler. The boilers were then drained and the cooked fiber stock placed in carts, allowing it to cure. From this point, the 1926). Page September 1913). In 1919, the Adams Bag Company was producing "in the neighborhood of 30 million manila business in the name of the Adams Bag Company.During World War I, the Adams Bag power to operate their mill downstream. In July 1913, the Exponent reported that construction placed on "a nearly level grade and in as nearly direct a line as possible between the plant and the upper mill pond [at Whitesburg] half a mile away." (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 24 July 1913). corner of the pond and on up to the upper mill pond to accommodate the aqueduct. The new 1913).
By September 1913, the Exponent was reporting that "Big sections of steel tubing had water out. Excavation work in both rock and earth is going on and much concrete work is to be cement, charcoal, coke,chemicals, clay, glue, gum, lamp black, corn meal, poultry feed, flour and cereals, lime, plaster and talc. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 13 March 1919). The Company and cooked under 30Ibs. of steam pressure with lime, soda, ash and water for seven to eight such by the War Industries Board. Manila rope paper bags made by the Company were used to ship vast quantities of flour and other cereal products, playing an important part in assisting the bags annually" and manufacturing about 25 different types of bags for packing products such as material was moved to the Beater Room. Each beating engine was filled with the cooked fiber, OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number where it was washed, bleached, colored, sized and beaten to further separate the fibers. From and travelled to the Paper Machine Room. Here, it was pumped through screens to eliminate coarse fibers. The remaining water filled with fine fibers was then passed through copper wire cylinders. The fine fibers adhered to cylinders, were picked up on felts and then passed through steam heated cylinders until all moisture was eliminated and paper sheets emerged. The next freshly coated paper was then dried by rapid circulation of warm air in the Drying Room. At this leading from just outside the Drying Room through a tunnel under Cleveland Street and into the the Bag Factory.
Automatic color printing presses labeled each bag. The printed or plain tubes were then folded, pasted, and pressed into bags with special devices designed for the purpose. March 1919, 2 August 1923,12 November 1925) By 1925, the Adams Bag Company was the oldest enterprise in the world devoted exclusively to the production of rope paper and rope paper shipping sacks. It was the only gravity paper mill water wheels in the mill. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 12 November 1925). Under the leadership of Edward and Kenneth Allen, the Company had moved its executive In 1926, all of the capital stock of the Adams Bag Company, an Ohio corporation, was purchased by Chase Bag Co., a Delaware corporation with head offices in New York City and since 1914. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 14 July 1932).
MILL OWNERSHIP 1932-2012 The headquarters of Adams Bag Company were transferred out of Chagrin Falls and into the Continuation Sheet offices from Cleveland to Chagrin Falls and constructed at the same time a"Fire-proof Office Paper Mill and Sack Factory finished paper material was transported by a small locomotive which travelled along a track NPS Form 10-900-a 1,1932,it became known as"The Adams Bag Company (Branch of Chase Bag Company). stop was the Coating Department where an enamel coating was added to the paper. The point the heavy enamel manila paper was ready for manufacture into paper bags or sacks. This Building" in 1923. The Office Building was to be the first in a comprehensive program for later enlargement of the mill, which never came to be. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 2 August 1923). Louis, Kansas City, Dallas and New Orleans.
Between 1926 and 1932, the Adams Bag but remained under the oversight of the same officers and staff that had directed the Company Adams Bag Company. Instead of operating it as a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, Chase and acquired all of its assets, in place of the stock of the Adams Bag Company. Beginning July Room where they were tied into bales for shipment to customers. (Exponent [Chagrin Falls] 13 manufacturing process, and only one of three in the industry that used water power derived from Company operated in Chagrin Falls as a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of Chase Bag Co., Bag Company arranged for the Adams Bag Company to "disincorporate" as of June 30, 1932 Cleveland offices of Chase Bag Company, under the general supervision of all paper bag operations at Chase Bag Co. branches. The former president E.B. Allen, vice president K.L. Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page effort to preserve economic stability for the business of the Adams Bag Company, but the reorganization and buy out marked the end of an era for the Adams and Allen families who together had owned and headed the company for 64 years. Chase Bag Company owned the Chagrin Falls mill until 1989 when they sold it to Ivex of Ohio, Inc. In 1991, the Sack Factory portion of the mill, located on the west side of Cleveland Street, was demolished. Earlier, in June1972, a boarding house constructed by mill owners Bliss & Pool in 1845 and later used for machine storage, was moved to 49 West Orange Street, Chagrin Falls where it remains today as a retail shop. (Photo Collection Cleveland Public upper dam at Whitesburg failed, but portions of the aqueduct remain.
In 1996 Ivex of Ohio, Inc. donated the upper 85 acres of the property to the Village of Chagrin Falls which is now after 145 years of operation as a mill. It is the last remaining mill in Chagrin Falls and one of the It was purchased by Spillway, LLC in 2008, rezoned for mixed use, and redevelopment is Continuation Sheet Cleveland office as officers and managers of Chase Bag Falls] Library;Cuyahoga County Tax Records,1846;Sanborn Insurance Co.Maps).In 1994,the Adams Bag Company longest continuously operating paper mill and bag manufacturing factories in the United States. anticipated. (Cuyahoga County Deed from Reynolds Metals Co. to Spillway, LLC dated Aug. 18, Whitesburg Nature Preserve.In 2002, Ivex of Ohio Inc. was purchased by Alcoa. A paper manufacturing facility continued on this site until June 2004, when the Company closed down 2008).
NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number 1. Annals of Cleveland, Cleveland Newspaper Digest Abstracts. 12 February 1858, 3 August 1869, 22 July 1871, 9 August 1871. Cleveland: WPA Project 14066, 1937. Western Reserve Historical Society. 2. Brainerd, Jehu & Barnes, Myron S., eds., "Chagrin Falls Village," Farmers' and Mechanics Journal, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, vol. 1, 1842-43. 3. Brose, David. An Archeological and Historical Architectural Study of Ecological 4. Chagrin Falls Exponent 1874 - 1964. Chagrin Falls Historical Society. 6. Cuyahoga County Land Records, Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office, Deeds 7. Cuyahoga County Hopkins Map 1858. 8. Cuyahoga County Plat Maps, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Cuyahoga County Archives. 9.
Cuyahoga County Tax Records 1841-1932, Chagrin Falls Village and Township, Cuyahoga County Archives. 12. Geauga County Tax Records 1833-1844, Russell Township, Geauga County 13. Naylor, Wendy. Oral History of Stewart R. Matthews. 6 January 2007. 14. Necrology Files, Cleveland, Ohio. Adams and Allen Family Obituaries. Cleveland BIBLIOGRAPHY Archives. Unpublished. Page Department. Primary Sources Continuation Sheet 1833-2008. Paper Mill and Sack Factory Public Library. Adams Bag Company of Natural History, Archeological Report #54, Cleveland, 1885. 10. Demolition Permit Map, Alcoa, 2006, Village of Chagrin Falls Building 11. Geauga County Land Records, Geauga County Archives, Deeds 1833 - 1844. Transects; Upper Chagrin Drainage, Geauga County, Ohio. Cleveland Museum 5. Cuyahoga County Atlas Collection, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Cleveland Public Library. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio 15. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Dam Safety Inspection Reports, Chase Bag Company & Ivex of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Village Of Chagrin Falls. 1979, 1999, 2005. 16. Ohio Deaths and Burials at www.familysearch.org. 17. Photo Collection. Adams Bag Factory. Chagrin Falls Historical Society. 18. Photo Collection. Cleveland Public Library. Chase Bag Company. 19. Photo Collection. Spillway LLC. 20. Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. Maps 1884, 1889, 1893, 1899, 1913, 1926, 1953. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Chagrin Falls Historical Society, Western Reserve Historical 21. The Cleveland Social Directory. Cleveland: Mrs. M. B. Haven, 1885-86. Western 22. United States Federal Non-Population Census, 1850, 1870, 1880 Chagrin Falls and Cleveland, Ohio. Western Reserve Historical Society. 23.
United States Patent Reports 1858-1884. Alfred Adams, Fitch Adams, Adams Jewett. Cleveland Public Library. 1. Adams, Comfort A., "Adams Family History," Genealogy Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, 1899. 2. Adams, Fred W., "Ancestors and Descendents of Asael Adams, and Lucy Mygatt Adams," Genealogy Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, 1924. Becker, Carl M. "James Leffel: Double Turbine Water Wheel Inventor," Ohio History. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, vol. 75, 1998. Berger, Kenneth. "A Brief History of Packaging." University of Florida IFAS, Extension Services, December 2002. Blakeslee, C.T. History of Chagrin Falls and Vicinity, 1874. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Friends of Chagrin Falls Library, 1969. Page Society. Secondary Sources Continuation Sheet Reserve Historical Society.
Paper Mill and Sack Factory National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Section number NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number 6. Chagrin Falls Township History, Cuyahoga County. Available at 7. Conlin, Mary Lou. Simon Perkins of the Western Reserve. Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1968. 9. Hatcher, Harlan.The Western Reserve The Story of New Connecticut in Ohio. Republished by Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1991. 10. Hook, Paula Hook and Joe E. Heimlich. "A History of Packaging," Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet, Community Development, CDFS-133, undated 11. Howe, Henry. Howe's Historical Collection's of Ohio. Vol. 1, 1896. 12. Lord, Philip L. Jr.
Mills on the Tsatsawassa: Techniques for Documenting Early 19" Century Water Powered Industry in Rural New York - A Case Study. Albany: Division of Historical and Anthropological Services, 1983. 13. Macaulay, David. Mill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. 14. Miller, Carol Poh, Wheeler, Robert A. Cleveland A Concise History 1796 - 1996. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2cd ed., 1997. 15. Rose, William Ganson. Cleveland, the Making of a City. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1950. 16. Rodgers, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Rodgers Collection. The Chagrin Falls Historical Society Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 17. Van Tassel, David D., Grabowski, John J. The Dictionary Of Cleveland Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Page Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places 8.
Gorretta, Laura J. ed., Chagrin Falls An Ohio Village History. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: The Chagrin Falls Historical Society, 2004. The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 7.70502 acres (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 17 467770 4586935 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By street & number 1325 Inglewood Drive telephone(216) 482-1179 _ state Ohio zip code 44121 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Representative black and white photographs of the property.
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city or town Cleveland Hts name/title organization Diana Wellman, Preservation Principles Cons. & Wendy H. Naylor, Historic Cons. date 9-26-11 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) Maps NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number of Ohio: Parcel No.1 & Parcel No. 2: Parcel No. 1 - Situated in the Village of Chagrin Falls, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio and known as Sublot Nos.
43, 44, 46, 47 and 48 and the Northeasterly 5.5 feet of Sublot No. 49 and part of Cleveland Street and Mill Street as now vacated in Bliss and Mayhew's Allotment of part of Original Russell Township Lots Nos. 18 and 19, Champion Tract, as shown on the Chagrin Falls Village Plat, recorded in Volume 2 of Maps, Page 37 of Cuyahoga County Records. Parcel No. 2 - Situated in the Village of Chagrin Falls, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio and known asbeing part of Cleveland Street and Mill Street, so called, as appears on plat of the Bliss and Mayhew Allotment of part of Original Russell recorded in Volume 2 of Maps, Page 37 of Cuyahoga County Records. The Permitting Parcel Number is parcel #931.17.001 (Parcel No.1) and #931.15.016 (Parcel No. 2). Boundary Justification County Recorders Office.
These arethe two parcels of the original Adams Bag Company Paper Cleveland Street as noted on the Cuyahoga County Geographic Information System. Page Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Verbal Boundary Description National Park Service Township Lots Nos. 18 and 19, Champion Tract, as shown on the Chagrin Falls Village Plat, The boundary of the district is based on parcel #931-17-001 and #931-15-016 of Cuyahoga NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents Page Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory City or Vicinity: Chagrin Falls Name of Photographer: Diana Wellman, Preservation Principles Consulting Date of Photographs: September 2011, January 2012 Location of Original Digital Files: 1325 Inglewood Drive, Cleveland Hts, Oh 44121 Number of Photographs: 1. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0001) Paper Mill Buildings and 1923 Office Building, camera facing N 3. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0003) Paper Mill Buildings, camera facing NW. 4. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0004) Engine Room and Dam, camera facing N. 5. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0005) Dam, camera facing N 6.(OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0006) Dam, camera facing S 7.
(OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0007) Mill Pond, camera facing W. 9. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0009) Paper Mill, camera facing E. 11. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0011) 1923 Office Building, camera facing E. 13. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0013) Boiler House, North elevation showing Coal Bins, camera facing SE. 14. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0014) Warehouse No.2, camera facing E 15. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0015) Warehouse No.1, camera facing NW. Room, camera facing NW. 17. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0017) Chimney, camera facing UP. 18. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0018) Tunnel, camera facing W Whitesburg - offsite 21. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0021) First Floor, Building 2, camera facing N. 22. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0022) Second Floor, Building 2, camera facing PHOTOGRAPHS County: State: Paper Mill and Sack Factory facing E.
Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Name of Property: 2. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0002) Paper Mill Buildings and Dam, camera 8. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HDO008) Paper Mill and Dam, camera facing E. 12. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0012) Boiler House, camera facing E 16. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0016) Roof of Paper Mill Buildings from Engine 19. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0019) Retaining Wall, camera facing N 20.(OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0020) Aqueduct, camera facing W. Image from NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents Page 2 PHOTOGRAPHS - continued 24. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0024) Ground Floor, Building 1B, camera facing 25. (OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0025) Building 1E, camera facing E. 21.
(OH_Cuyahoga_Adams Bag Co HD0027) First Floor, Building 1D, camera facing N Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Adams Bag Company NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 1858 Hopkins Map of Chagrin Falls, Lake Erie Paper Mill, original building on site of the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) National Park Service Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 2.
Sanborn, 1910-1953 MILL Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company CHAGRIN FALLS (87-VoL.9) United States Department Of The Interior CLEVELAND NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 1846 Jehu Brainard Woodcut of Chagrin Falls, Bliss, Pool and Weston Woolen Mill and Dam, Howe's Historical Collection of Ohio Vol.1, 1896, 527. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company CHAGRIN FALLS IN 1846. Paper Mill and Sack Factory NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ 4.View of complexfrom southside of Chagrin River looking north from Mill Pond at top of Dam, ca. 1900. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 5. View of Paper Mill Boiler House Building, looking east, ca. 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 6. View of Office Building,looking northeast from south side of Chagrin River and Cleveland Street bridge, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Adams Bag Company NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 7. View of Mill Yard, looking east, ca. 1925. The corner of the Bag Factory Building, which faced the Office Building is at the right, the Warehouse No.1 at the left. Courtesy Spillway, LLC.
Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 8.The Rotary Cooking Room, showing the Stock Boilers where rope fibers were cooked and prepared for the beaters, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company United States Department Of The Interior Paper Mill and Sack Factory NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 9. The Beater Room, where rope fibers and other fibers were beaten, washed and in some cases bleached and colored, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC.
Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page bag production, ca. 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company 10.The"discharge"end showing some of the Heavy Duty Tubers for the paper NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ 11. The Printing Department, a battery of Rotary and Flat Bed Presses for high- grade bag printing, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC.
Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ 12. The President's Office, the corner office overlooked the Dam and the Mill Pond, ca. 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Paper Mill and Sack Factory Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 13. The Chemical Laboratory, where chemicals are tested out, paper making fibers and combinations, and examined under a microscope for uniformity, quality and color, records of competitors' paper recorded for future references, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC.
Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ 14. Rope Cutting Room, The Railroad Duster and Dust Collecting System, chops the rope fibers and other fibers, knocking the loose dirt out before the fibers go to the Rotary Cookers, 1925. Courtesy Spillway, LLC. Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company United States Department Of The Interior OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Continuation Sheet Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page 15. Paper Mill, 1906.
Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society NPS Form 10-900-a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 16. Paper Mill, 1898. Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 17. Paper Mill, 1898. Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Additional Documents - Historic Images Page_ CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 18. Dam, 1898. Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Continuation Sheet 19.Paper Mill ca.1910.Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documents - Historic Images Page CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company 20.Paper Mill ca.1910. Courtesy Chagrin Falls Historical Society NP S Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio ) WHITESBURG J.K. HALLECK & CO. ) unoccupied Rough Location of Dams & Mills BLISS & MAYHEW C. & H. EARL E. GOODMAN along Chagrin River in 1842. GRAVES & SEARS NEFF & WILLIAMS Millpond Continuation Sheet Adams Bag Company (Oct 1990) O. & J.N.
BLISS Additional Documents - Topo Map of Mills & Dams along Chagrin River Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documentation - Sketch Map MILL POND MILL ST. CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES 1859 PAPER MILL BLDG/BOILER HOUSE 1859 PAPER MILL BLDG/BEATER ROOMS 1859 PAPER MILL BLDG/MACHINE ROOM 1859 PAPER MILL BLDG/BLEACHING ROOM 1882/1923/1991 TUNNEL WAREHOUSE NO. 1 1906/1982 1889/1930/1982 RESOURCES NON-CONTRIBUTING Continuation Sheet AQUEDUCT CHAGRIN RIVER National Register of Historic Places CLEVELAND ST. 1923 OFFICE 1859 PAPER MILL BLDG/ENGINE ROOM 1F 1910 CHIMNEY 1906 RETAINING WALL TREES DAM NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) United States Department Of The Interior Adams Bag Company Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documentation - Photo-Key MILL ST. CHAGRIN RIVER Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service MILL POND Paper Mill and Sack Factory CLEVELAND ST LOW ST. DAM NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10024-0018 (Oct 1990) National Park Service THE ADAMS BAG COMPANY Cuyahoga County, Ohio Additional Documentation - Location Map VILLAGE CHAGRIN FALLS Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Paper Mill and Sack Factory United States Department Of The Interior QEAUGA COUNTY BENTLEYVILLE MORELAND HILLS EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./ CRITERIA If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE RETURN DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE REJECT REVIEWER 7/04/12 6/28/12 5/18/12 Historic Places OTHER: PDIL: NAME: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The National Register Entered in UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga 6/13/12 DATE OF PENDING LIST: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.
OH- CUYAHOGA. ADAMS BAGCO HD0OOZ OH- CUYAHOGA. ADAMS BAG CO. MD OOOS OH_ CUFAHOGA- ADAMS BAG CO. Hi) 0007 OH_ CUYAHOGA- ADANS BAG CO. HOOON OH- CUYAHOGA- ADAMS BAG CO. HPOOIS - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1994 CHAGRIN FALLS, OH CHAGRIN FALLS QUADRANGLE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UTM REFERENCES. USGS RECDBY OHPO FEB 13.2012 The Chagrin Falls Historical Society 21 Walnut Street - Shute Memorial Building February 9, 2012 Ms. Susan Tietz National Register and Inventory Manager Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Society 800 East 17th Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-2474 Re: Adams Bag Company Paper Mill & Sack Factory, Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County Dear Ms. Tietz: The Society is writing in support of the nomination of the Adams Bag Company Paper Mill & Sack Factory in Chagrin Falls for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
This nomination brings attention to the importance of mills to the establishment of our community, as well as to the importance of the few historic buildings that remain. Listing of this property will also for the repurposing of the remaining Adams Bag Company historic mill buildings for a new The Village of Chagrin Falls was founded upon the water power of the Chagrin River, with nine mills along a one mile stretch by 1842. Today, the Adams Bag Company operation is the last remaining mill building in Chagrin Falls. The Chagrin Falls Historical Society was founded in 1949 and has over 350 members. Our mission is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge of Chagrin Falls and its vicinity. The history of the Adams Bag Company, and its remaining structures are integral to the history of Chagrin Falls. Thank you for your consideration.
John W Bourisseau (440)247-4695 www.chagrinhistorical.org President and modern use. Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022 Sincerely WILLIAM D. GINN February 10, 2012 Spillway Project 218 Cleveland Street Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 community the best of all possible outcomes. face in the near future. I particularly like your handling of the vexing dam issues and connecting the Spillway site to the neighboring park. 3900 KEY CENTER, 127 PUBLIC SQUARE, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 Best wishes, Bill Ginn is clearly the way to go - preservation for its own sake would never be feasible at Bill Phillips support in a meaningful way this creative benefit to the community. I was delighted to get an update on the Spillway Project.
As you know, I have that site.Creating a hub of activity in and around the nucleus gives the for the Chagrin Falls community.The adaptive reuse of these Historic buildings Since the scope includes updating and rehabilitating the site and its infrastructure, long felt that the multiple ingredients in the plan present a compelling opportunity you are solving potential problems which the City would undoubtedly have to COURTHOUSE ANNEX 231 Main Street Suite 1-C SHARON C. GINGERICH Chardon, Ohio 44024 GEAUGA COUNTY RECORDER To Whom It May Concern April 10, 2012 For many years, I have driven down Cleveland Street in Chagrin Falls to take a look at the old Chase Bag Factory - when it was in operation and after it closed. It is located on such a beautiful site.
The factory has always held an unsolved mystery for me personally because I believe, but cannot prove, that my father delivered donuts there when it was Chase Bag. I have a vague memory of him talking about the facility and of some involvement with it. Unfortunately, my father has been gone many years and my questions will never be answered. Like many other people, when I was younger, I never asked the questions and now the source of the information is gone forever. We see that with many of our historical buildings as well...they are torn down to make room for parking lots or houses or big box stores or some other modern structure. All we have left is a distant memory of what was there, or of some story we heard about its glory days.
It was a pleasant surprise when I learned that Bill Phillips and his partners were undertaking the monumental task of not just restoring the building, but restoring it to a facility that included the public! Recently, Bill took me on a tour of the grounds. It was a glorious mess, walls fallen in, holes in the floor, windows smashed, glass and debris on the floors, and the signs of vandalism all over this wonderful historic treasure. There were mementos of better times all around - books, mailboxes, gears, huge oaken and cedar vats, pulleys, shaky metal stairs and abandoned offices - signs that it had once been a thriving company. You down the sloping walkway through arched doorways into other busy rooms. you could actually picture yourself in the midst of.
The preservation and revitalization of the Adams/Chase I could go on and on with my impressions, but I really want to keep this letter to one page. I hope that you will support this incredible venture Sincerely Preserving your past, providing for your future. We look forward to serving you! recorder@co.geauga.oh.us www.co.geauga.oh.us Western Reserve. (440)279-2020 wiser.But the damage has been done and no amount of regret can replace what has been destroyed. could almost picture people climbing the ladders, working on the machinery, checking the valves, walking Sadly the building had been and continues to be vandalized and no serious effort is being made to stop it. Those people who are doing the damage will come to regret it some day as they hopefully get older and cal appearance, Bill's vision is apparent and exciting.
With every room we walked into, he had a dream that Bag Company is going to bring back a vital part of Chagrin Falls past and become a historical treasure to the The happy ending/beginning of this story is that it's former glory is going to be restored. In spite of its physi- RECEIVED 2280 MAY 1 8 2012 May 9, 2012 Ms. Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 Eye Street, NW (2280) Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find five (5) new National Register nominations for Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new nomination submission. NEW NOMINATION Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory Kilgour, Frederick G. House Sedamsville Village Historic District Newbury Township School #14 Please be aware that two of the enclosed nominations, the Frederick G.
Kilgour House and Riverview, are nominations for properties with significance of less than fifty years; both are If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. Executive Director and CEO State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY HISTORY Hamilton Enclosures Lucas Cuyahoga www.ohiohistory.org Riverview OHIO Sincerely, National Register Miami Burt Logan National Park Service nominated under National Register Criterion Exception G. OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Franklin Dear Ms. Shull: 218 Cleveland Street Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 the historic site will create a positive impact by stimulating growth and tourism.
create new jobs, new tax revenue and additional local interest which would be beneficial to Chagrin Falls and many surrounding communities. include Tax Increment Financing to further the project and help lower the dam. This collaboration will also improve the local transportation and connectivity by I look forward to working with you and your partners to complete this project, Mayor, Village of Chagrin falls Sincerely, Spillway Project creating new sidewalks and pathways. Spillway will also provide on site parking parking in the downtown area. Thomas Brick, Bill Phillips for all of the businesses. This means that new Spillway will not require additional The mixed use development, using retail, office and manufacturing, will also Bill: Given a sound financial position, Spillway will be working with the Village to and look forward to enjoying the project's many benefits.
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Iam excited about the Spillway Project in Chagrin Falls. I feel that repurposing
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