Pennsylvania Stave
Company
Plant
Betula,
PA
1912
photo credit: John G. Coleman
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At Betula,just below Norwich, the Pennsylvania Stave Company
built a mill in 1912. It replaced their Cross Fork operation that closed
in the same year. The stave mill used the larger hardwood while the chemical
plant used the smaller hardwoodwood.