Shenandoah Pulp Factory

In 1877-1888, on the former site of the Shenandoah Canal's lower locks, Thomas Savery erected this large mill to provide wood pulp for the paper industry.<br><br>Ten turbines, arranged in pairs in the mill's five massive sluiceways, powered wood grinders, rolling machines, and other pulp-making machinery. By the 1920's, Savery's mill had the capacity to produce 15 tons of ground wood pulp daily.<br><br>After several unprofitable years, the mill closed in 1935. Within a year the building was destroyed by the record flood of 1936.<br><br>Its ruins reveal the last remnant of water-powered industry in Harpers Ferry.