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South Carolina Mills Communities within Communities South Carolina History Woodruff Middle School Paul D. Gilliam Teacher Beginnings of South Carolina Mills After gaining experience in the United States’ first mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Phillip, Lindsay, and John Weaver, Thomas Slack, Leonard Hill, and Thomas Hutchings bought 60 acres of land in 1816, on the Tyger River, in Cross Keys, established a small factory and named it the South Carolina Cotton Manufactory. Advantages of the Upstate Ample Waterpower Tyger North Middle South Fair Roads Proximity to raw materials Lower taxes and property costs Ample supply of workers Financial Resources Father of the textile industry in South Carolina William Gregg Lobbied strenuously to overcome opposition to large-scale manufacturing Built a mill at Graniteville in the Aiken District Largest in the South Built the first mill village in the South Locations: Powered by Rivers and Shoals Tyger River North Pacolet River Trough Shoals Hurricane Shoals Cannon’s Shoals Nesbitt’s Shoals Mountain Shoals Glendale Shoals Mills of the Upstate Abney Mill American Fast Print Apalache Mill Arcadia Mills Arkwright Mills Arlington Armitage Barksdale Mill William Barnet and Sons Mills of the Upstate Beaumont Manufacturing Company Bigelow-Sanford Bivingsville Blue Ridge Hosiery Company Buckeye Forest Burnt Factory Butte Knit Mills of the Upstate Camp Croft Cateswood Cedar Hill Factory Chesnee Cotton Mill Clifton Manufacturing Company Cowpens Manufacturing Company Crawfordsville Mills of the Upstate Crescent Knitting Mills D.E. Converse Company Drayton Mills Enoree Manufacturing Company Fairmont Mills Fairforest Finishing Fingerville Cotton Factory Mills of the Upstate Fort Prince Spinning Company Franklin Process Spinning Mills Fryml Fabrics Glendale Mills Hill’s Factory Hoechst-Celanese Huckleberry Mill Mills of the Upstate Inman Mills Island Creek Mills Jackson Mills John H. Montgomery Plant Jordan Manufacturing Company Kosa Leigh Fibers Mills of the Upstate Lyman Printing and Finishing Mary Louise Mill Mayfair Mills Model Mill Mt. Vernon Mills New Prospect Plant Niagra Mill Mills of the Upstate Olympia Knitting Mills Pacific Mills Pacolet Mills Pelham Mills Pequot Mills Powell Knitting Company Raycord Mills of the Upstate Ramey/Mountain Shoals Riverdale Saxon Mills Saybrook Shamrock Mills South Carolina Manufacturing South Tyger Manufactory at Cedar Hill Mills of the Upstate Spartan Mills Springs Industries Tietex TNS Green Plants TNS Spartanburg Tucapau Tyger Cotton Mill Mills of the Upstate Valley Falls Victor Manufacturing Company W.S. Gray Mills Wadsworth Mills Warrior Duck Mill Wallace Factory Weaver’s Factory Mills of the Upstate Wellford Manufacturing Company Whitney Manufacturing Company Woodruff Cotton Mill Daily Life in the Mill Village Houses Single Family Dwellings Multi-Family Buildings Schools Nurseries Primary Elementary Secondary Daily Life in the Mill Village Sports Stores/Commercial Religious Baptist Methodist Presbyterian Episcopal The Demise of the Mills Labor Unions Technology Automation Increased efficiency Foreign Imports NAFTA Mill Closings Tributes from the Mills Poetry The Furious Fifties Aragon Mill A Tribute to the People of Beaumont Mills To a Cotton Mill Worker The Ballad of the Spartan Mills They Closed Down the Mill Films, Photographs, and Movies Music Credit(s) •Teter, Betsy Wakefield. Textile Town: Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Spartanburg, South Carolina: Hub City Writers Project, 2002. •Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [pan 6a09726 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a09726] •LC-G612-T01-17976 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.) Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 •LC-D4-16272 DLC •AFC 1939/001 2666a1 •LC-USF33-020746-M2 DLC (b&w film nitrate neg.) •Library of Congress, American Folklife Center Collection o o o o o o o PAN US GEOG - South Carolina, no. 17 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number, e.g., LCUSZ62-110212] Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection LC-D4-16272 DLC (b&w glass neg.) Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [pan 6a09726 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a09726] HAER, SC,5-BAMB,1 LC-G612-T-17946 DLC (interpositive) LC-ULC-USF34-031985-D DLC (b&w film America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSAOWI, 1935-1945 http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/waldrep/01.html Converse Baptist Church, Clifton No. 3, circa 1930. (Courtesy of Michael Hembree) •LC-USF34-034778-D DLC (b&w film neg.) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection LC-USF34-034778-D DLC (b&w film neg.) • Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF34-034763-D DLC (b&w film neg.) •Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF33-012506-M5 DLC (b&w film nitrate neg.) •Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA; edmp 0050 urn:hdl:loc.mbrsmi/edmp.0050 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp. •Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress http://www.city-data.com/city/Inman-Mills-SouthCarolina.html Standards 8.2 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in the history of South Carolina and the United States from Exploration through the Revolutionary War. 8.5 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in the history of South Carolina and the United States from Reconstruction through Populism (ca. 1900). 8.7 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the role of the citizen in American democracy, including personal and civic rights and responsibilities. 8.8 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of South Carolina and the United States in spatial terms.