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Jaite Mill Products

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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But it was just a big, old factory building, and um, there were always big rolls of paper, which they um, fashioned into the brown bags, and then the department that I worked in, that I was . . . where I was secretary, was the small, the smallest department and they made plastic bags, like the kind that they use in the grocery store now. They also made brown bags, the small brown bags, and they made white bags, but it was all small, much smaller than the big brown grocery bags. And then I think they used to make, for commercial, cement bags and that heavy type of bag up at the front of the building. But it was just an old, lots of old buildings, and they’d added on from time to time.

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Josephine Davis, who grew up in Brecksville, talks about the types of bags made at the Jaite Paper Company.

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