Children swimming near the paper mill, c.1920
This file appears in: The Arrival of the Paper Mill at Woodard
This photograph illustrates the vital role the mill played in Millwood's everyday life and town's livelihood.
Image courtesy of Washington State Archives, Digital Archives.
This file appears in: The Arrival of the Paper Mill at Woodard
The Arrival of the Paper Mill at Woodard
Originally called Woodard, or Woodard Station, after the family who owned the land on either side of the tracks, the district that is now Millwood was a little railroad town. The arrival of the Inland Empire Paper Company in 1910, however, changed…