Stories Behind the Concrete Slabs of Jax: Part I

4. Jacksonville Paper Company



This foundation was the original 1919 site of Clifford Graham McGehee's Jacksonville Paper Company. By the time the McGehee family sold the company in the mid-1960s, it had become the Southeast's largest supplier of paper and paper products.Clifford McGehee's sons, Tom and Frank, immediately opened Mac Papers, after selling Jacksonville Paper. Mac Paper is now the largest supplier of printing paper and envelopes in the Southeastern United States and is celebrating its 50th year in business. The company's plant and offices are now on Philips Highway, just south of San Marco.


The Jacksonville Paper Company's original location (left of Crane Company) is illustrated in the center of this Sanborn Map.