If you’re going to write the history of a place, you’ll need a lot of paper. And for a time, there was no finer paper to be had than from the Curtis Paper Mill in Newark, Delaware. Today, a neighborhood park attracts birds and the occasional visitor to what was once the site of the oldest operational paper mill in America. Although the site is now known as Curtis Mill Park, it predates the Curtises entirely. The mill’s history begins in 1789, when a Pennsylvanian man named Thomas Meeteer purchased…
