Lockland High School - Dictograph Yearbook (Lockland, OH)

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E MANUFACTURING 1846- 1948 A Century of Industrial Progress OLD VIEW RICHARDSON PLANT HISTORY OF THE LOCKLAND PLANT OF THE GARDNER RICHARDSON COMPANY Way back before the Civil War in 1858 river steamboat Captain Thomas J Haldeman decided to go mto the paper manufacturing busmess He came to Cincinnati and finally chose for his factory location the spot on the old Miami and Ene Canal at Wyoming Aw enue vshere the old Felt Mill No 1 used to stand and which now has been donated to the City of Lockland for park and playground purposes After securing an old steamboat boiler some second hand laundry cylmder dryers and arranging to slderable difficulty finally started to make paper This was the beginning of the Lockland Plant of the Gardner Richardson Company ninety odd years ago This small factory vias incorporated in 1868 as the Haldeman Paper Company Their products were primarily straw board and felt paper Straw board has many uses among others it was used by butchers to wrap meat and by candy manufacturers to line palls and rubs of candy Felt paper was used as a base for asphalt roofing as deadenmg and insulating paper and for many other purposes Cornplmwnta of GARDNER RICHARDSON COMPANY I0 obtain water power from the Canal, Captain Haldeman started to build a paper machine which after con-

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As the years went on the Company grew, changing its products to keep abreast of the times, until 1896 when the Company name was changed to the Richardson Paper Company. 'By that time Captain Haldeman's son-in-law, James C. Richardson, had taken over active management of the business. The Company continued to grow and acquire more property and install more and better equipment until it owned two mills in Lockland, the Upper lNIill which was the original mill and the Lower Mill which was located near the present plant and later sold to the Phillip Carey Manufacturing Company. By this time Mr. Richardson's sons were growing up and one by one they took an active part in running the business, which was then one of the largest business establishments in the then Village of Lockland. In 1907 the management of the Company saw an opportunity to get into the boxboard business so the present Lockland Plant was planned, built, and has been operating ever since. It was the first electrically operated paper mill in the country and was the last word in plant and equipment. In 1913 after the disastrous flood of that year, the Company acquired the plant and equipment of the Reynolds Paper Box Company and thereby got into the Folding Paper Box business which helped fur- nish an outlet for the NI1ll s paperboard production Later on ln 1917 the Company built and equipped a complete prepared asphalt roofing plant which furnished an outlet for our felt mill production and contributed immensely to the supply of the fast grow ing asphalt roofing lndustrx In 1932 the Richardson Company sold its entire boxboard and folding carton interests fthe Lockland Plantb to the Gardner Han ev Company at lNI1ddletown at which time The Gardner Richardson Com pany was established The present Company is a typical example of an industry properlv managed which has grown from a wery small to a large concern while still retaining its interest and responsibility for the welfare of its employees and the communities in which it operates AERI AI Y IEW PREbENT GARDNER RICHARDSONI PLANTT C ontnbuted by GARDNER RICH -XRDSON COMPANY Il . . , . I . . .. . Y . 1 f ' . . Y . . v . . - U 1 - - Y . . . v . v . V , v Y 7 ' 1 ' v 4 4 4 1' A A 4 ' A A A 1' K, 51 :as .3 F V- V rl ff......- N . H wr T digg .fl t ,Y-'I 'f V ',,, ,g '. 5 :. N! , Jaw 1+ ,Q ' A ' - f. r ' 1, 'i-...- , ' .,,,,, , ' , ,p Y V, y-M -ff, r -..,. .,.',l A - . 4, K , -- M. 1, I' v g ' L - A