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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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.
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.