For 100 years the Cottrell Paper Company has operated a mill along the Kayaderosseras Creek. Now, after four generations, the Rock City Falls company has been added to the New York State’s Historic Business Preservation Registry.
Since 1926, the Cottrell family has been producing paper goods for everyone from local business to international corporations.
“When my great-grandfather decided he wanted to do this he was working for another paper company. He went to the leaders of that company and said ‘I have an idea to make cotton paper out of denim blue jeans.’ And they didn’t buy into his idea so he said, ‘I’m going to go out on my own and do it,’ and here we are 100 years later making that same product,” said Joshua Cottrell…