Finch, Pruyn and Company Paper Plant

Downstream from Corinth, the Hudson River crosses the blue line, and leaves the park, and a few miles further the river meets the town, and the dam, of Glens Falls. While located outside the park, Glens Falls has been the largest single engine of consumption for the logging industry that transformed the Adirondacks, chiefly through the Finch, Pruyn and Company mill at Glens Falls, which has operated for more than 150 years. The company was the second largest landowner in the Adirondacks (after International Paper), driving logs to this plant down the river. The plant converted to a pulp paper operation in 1905, making newsprint, and later magazine and book paper. In 2007 the family-run Finch, Pruyn and Company was sold, and its new owners renamed it Finch Paper. Much of the company’s 200,000 acres of the Adirondacks has been sold off to the Nature Conservancy, though they are still managed by company foresters.