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Show 18 PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC wasnot rebuilt. The ettlemen of Germany, on the Little Miam{Rive founded by Christian Waldsmith in 1796, has been known since Civl s as Camp Denniso the villag lies along the Wooster turnpik undisturbed by the inroads of modernism The main stone house inthe English papermaling village of Wookey Hole ‘main of the Waldsmith paper miilexcept a few foundatfon stones th are now only an annoyance to the plowman as he tills the rich b Iand for the annua corn planting Almost contemporar with the Christfan Waldsmith paper mill the establishment of the "Unfon Paper Mill," founded durfng the y¢i 1810by John Crossan C. Earenfight, in the Little Miami Valley 26 sixand a quarter miles above Lebanon, in Warren County. John Crofi oneofthe two partners, wasa expert English papermakcer, skilled 0% 5: "40,000 Wt. Rags Paper Mill, on the Little Miam(, stxand a quarter miles fro forwhich the highest price fn cash will be given by Cross Leban Earenfig" whowanttwoor three smart active boys of about 140 16 years occupation He was one of the few English-trained paperrmakers wd travelledas far westas Kentuckyan Ohioto practice his dfficult 1% 7 Much of the writing paper made in the early millsof these twoweste |