Ontario Abandoned Places will be rebranded as Ominous Abandoned Places

Kagawong Mill

Abandoned Mill/Foundry in Billings, Ontario, Canada

Nov 03 2011

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Recent status Abandoned
Location # 3437

This building is a monument to two major Ontario resource industries. Built to process local spruce into pulp, it diverted water-power from the Kagawong River to drive its heavy machinery. Wet pulp was baled and shipped to Michigan to make Sears-Roebuck catalogues. The pulp mill closed with the onset of the Depression, but re-opened in 1932 as a hydro-electric plant. Until 1949 it was the sole source of electric power for Manitoulin Island. Ontario Hydro operated the plant from 1946 until an increasing supply of electricity from the mainland led to its closing in 1961. Thirty years later, local volunteers restored the building for community use.

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3 years ago

I would maybe switch the status to repurposed or something as it's not really abandoned anymore?