Six railroad spurs extended from the tracks running behind Main Street to the Forest Paper Company, traversing today's Royal River Park.

Rail cars delivered logs, coal, soda and chlorine to the mill and carried pulp away.

The mill burned in 1931, leaving charred remains on the site until the development of the park in the early 1980s.

In 1971, the Marine Corps Reserve tore down the old factory, before a Navy demolition team used fourteen cases of dynamite to raze the remains.

Most of the remaining debris was crushed and used as fill for the park but several remnants of the building are still visible today.