1883 The LaCamas Colony Company, under the leadership of Henry Pittock (famed founder of the Portland newspaper, The Oregonian), bought 2,600 acres of land. Pittock wanted to build a paper mill to supply newsprint for The Oregonian and other newspapers in the region. Crews began clearing land, building dams and constructing a sawmill. Thirty Chinese laborers began work on the Mill ditch, an aqueduct that continues to supply the mill with water. The town site of LaCamas was laid out and platted, and the first store opened for business. |
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1884 Henry Pittock, J.K. Gill and William Lewthwaite formed the Columbia River Paper Company. The first post office was established in LaCamas. |
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1889 Washington became a state. |
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1914 Crown Columbia merged with Willamette Paper to form Crown Willamette, the second largest papermaker in the world. |
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1928 Crown Willamette merged with Zellerbach Paper to become Crown Zellerbach. |
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1941 The machine shops were converted to manufacture shipyard parts for World War II. |
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1981-84 Completed a $425 million modernization, including a state-of-the-art communication papers machine. This allowed the mill to improve environmental performance and increase production to meet regional market demands. |
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1986 The Camas Mill becomes a subsidiary of James River Corporation of Richmond, Virginia. |
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1997 James River merged with Fort Howard to become Fort James Corporation |
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2000 Georgia-Pacific acquires the Fort James Corporation |
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2005 Koch Industries, Inc. purchases Georgia-Pacific and establishes it as part of Koch Forest Products, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary. |
