For as long as anyone can remember, Piedmont's character has been completely bound up with the Westvaco papermill: its prosperous past and doubtful future.
One can hardly believe that this papermill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
很难相信这个造纸厂仅仅是在几年前白手起家办起来的。
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Like the Italians and the Irish, most of the colored people migrated to Piedmont at the turn of the 20th century to work at the papermill, which opened in 1888.