My dad's entire accounting career was in the paper industry. His first job was at an Owens-Illinois (OI) office, directly across the street from the Alton Box mill in Talleyrand, in the late 1960s. OI had sold the mill to Alton Box a few years earlier. OI must have officially left around 75' because he had to select a pulp mill in Valdosta or a large containerboard plant in Central Florida to transfer too. Over the years, the containerboard plant he picked had several owners (OI, Tenneco, Nekoosa Packaging, Georgia-Pacific, PCA, etc.) tied to various mills across the country. Growing up in the 1980s, we'd visit Jax a few times to catch up with their friends still living in town. The smell was downright horrible (especially in the Northside), but typical of pulp mills. The one thing that stood out about Jax was the concentration of facilities. Most mills were isolated or near small towns. In Jax/Northeast Florida, there were multiple mills and related industrial users, that when combined, kicked that bad smell up a notch.
