Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Canal Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA

Significance: Although much of the paper mill complex is not longer extant, the surviving structures represent the chronology of several important New England paper manufacturing companies, from the pioneering efforts of William A. Russell, through a period of major expansion under the renowned Champion-International Company and its association with the National Geographic Magazine, to the mill's decline as the manufacturing of paper gravitated toward the forests of northern New England. The site is also a significant component of the North Canal Historic District, a mile-long complex of mill structures which were instrumental in the development of the City of Lawrence during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Survey number: HAER MA-139