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Show Ll ‘workin in this region he conceived th pos R A At it W the water power of Little Beaver Creek for the purpos acturing ofs geeflg‘\[/?al agreement among the three gentlemen "for the erectio 8ocPer Mill near the mouth of Little Beaver Creek,"s dated Augus e Thisdocumententersintospecificdetails relatfve tothe boundaPapeshe Paper mill property, but unfortunately for the historians o Wageenaking, nodescripton are given of the mfll and ftsequipment. I doljyerimate that the building and appliance would cost six thousan i) }(‘m 8¢ 158). The enterprise was known as"The Ohfo Paper Mill, "Qp g frm name of "Coulter Bever and Bowman, the three fnitfal Lways appearing n the watermarksfn the paper 1 P Th Printed notice of Ohio's first paper mill appeared fn th e e ditfon of "The Navigator"b Zadok Cramer, a publfcatio and fssued by Cramer and Spear fn Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PersgraphneThe Navigator" reads:LittleBeaver Creel lef 9uarter of a mile below Georgetown. Near the mouth of th grist, one saw, and a paper mill erected in 1807-8, by Messrs thu‘;, Be(a)ver, and Bowman." Thissuccinct reference to the earlfes Crregy Inal subsequent editions of "The Navigator" the position f Withy, 6‘U(Ed(paiexjg), he location of the papermill hasalwaysbee thaey Ohio, less thana mil west of the Pennsylvant line, a boundar: Iy g ghedergone nochange since the orf 1survey of 1786. (AccordPamphlet, "A Tour through th Western Country, A. D. 181 |