Aug 15, 2024 · For most of the twentieth century, Port St. Joe was known to tourists and Floridians as a smelly paper mill town. The St. Joe Company opened a large paper mill in 1938 and the town prospered with good jobs in the mill and surrounding forests.

The St. Joe Paper mill was owned by the DuPont interests. It was opened in 1938 at Port Saint Joe. The 600,000 cords of pulpwood used annually come from 750,000 acres of forest owned by the company. The output of the mill goes mostly into corrugated paper boxes. Photographed in December, 1959. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Florida State ...

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Construction began in 1936, and from 1938 to 1996, the company operated a paper mill at Port St. Joe, as St. Joe Paper Company. [20] From 1938 to 1974 St. Joe Paper Company discharged mill wastewater into an unlined impoundment in the Highland View Neighborhood [21] and St. …

Apr 4, 2003 · Re-established in the 1920s, the resurrected city went industrial with the opening of the St. Joe Co.’s paper mill in 1938. Workers were well-paid and easily employed at the mill, in...

The city reinvented itself into a lumber port, fishing village and paper mill town. In 1925 Gulf County was created and the Gulf Coast Highway was formed. In the 1930’s the St. Joe Paper Company was constructed and a paper mill opened.

For years St. Joe's paper mill dumped its waste _ pine bark and potentially hazardous boiler ash _ in a swampy area across the railroad tracks from downtown Port St. Joe. In the 1950s,...

Mar 30, 2003 · For starters, the stench of the paper mill - "the smell of money," locals called it - is history, the mill reduced to a rubble-strewn vacant lot. Secondly, some world-class beaches with soft,...

Jun 20, 2006 · When Florida land was dirt-cheap in the 1920s, the company bought up more than 1-million acres. On most of its property St. Joe planted rows of slash pines, destined to …