First Southern Pine Fourdrinier Kraft Linerboard in United States

A corrugated-box industry history credits Brown Paper Company of West Monroe with making the first kraft paper and linerboard from southern pine fiber, and dates it to 1923. A 1924 company newsletter, The Super Calender, profiled the brand-new mill. The mill then changed hands several times: Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation bought the company in 1955, followed by Johns Manville, Riverwood International and, now, Graphic Packaging, whose complex stands behind this marker on Jonesboro Road. Linerboard is the heavy paperboard used for the flat faces of corrugated packaging.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 2.2 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 2.5 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 5.8 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 7.7 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

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