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HISTORIC FLOODOING IN CANTON, NORTH CAROLINA - I retired from a 40-year career in ministry and moved from Middle Tennessee to Canton, North Carolina, on a whim. Also known as “Papertown,” Canton is a quaint mountain town on the headwaters of the Pigeon River. Its bustling industrial center is the Evergreen Paper Mill, which has been in operation for over 100 years. The mill has faced down chestnut blights, wrestled with forest management and water regulations since its inception, and defied a hostile buyout in the 1990s when nearly 2,000 employees paid $200 million to purchase it themselves.
I’d always wanted to live in the mountains, and I was enchanted by the story of Canton’s mill. My plan was to sell real estate, supply preach and live happily ever after. Then, three months after I arrived and a year and a half into the global pandemic, a historic flood hit Canton, dropping 14 inches of rain in 12 hours — a once-in-500-year flood throughout Haywood County — and, well, as they say: the best-laid plans. … Over the next year of rebuilding, I came to learn that like its mill, the town of Canton is a tenacious survivor ...
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