Location: Monroe, MI - Paper Plants ♣

Monroe was the second largest paper producer in Michigan after Kalamazoo. There were a number of paper plants along the railroads in downtown Monroe.

Industries

Monroe Binder Board Company. In 1916, this plant was located north of East 1st Avenue between Dans and Roosevelt Avenue. It received rail service from the LS&MS Adrian branch. [SBM]

River Raisin Parchment Paper Company opened in 1911 in Monroe. This large plant was located between North Dixie Highway and the D&TSL/MC main line, north of Raisin River. The facility received boxcar loads of scrap paper, straw, Swedish or domestic kraft, silicate, thank cars containing clay slurry, and coal in C&O and L&N hoppers. It shipped finished high quality parchment paper and paperboard in box cars. Each day the plant consumed 70 tons of straw, 400 tons of waste paper, 22 tons of kraft, and burned 375 tons of coal. The plant closed in 1996. The plant was built on the site of the original Frenchtown settlement. Today this is a national historic site. [CGJ] [SBM] in 1916 notes that the plant made folding paper boxes and fiber shipping cases.

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