The Brown family owned land that spanned from Canada to Florida, which they used for logging.

[8] In September 2012, a partnership between Historic New England, the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society, Timberlane Regional High School, and Plymouth State University created an award-winning documentary called At the River's Edge: An Oral History of Berlin, New Hampshire.

[9] During the early 1900s, the Brown Company created a new department known as "research and development" and constructed a building for this to take place.

[10] The objective for this new department was to "demonstrate that the future of the Brown Company didn't lie in the achievements of the past, but in the development of products and process that were yet to come.

"[11] Some products that were the result of the R&D department were Bermico piping, cellulose floc, and Nibroc towels.