Edenton Mill Village

From 1898-1923 more than seventy dwellings existed on five streets for mill families.

Deeded to the Historic Preservation Foundation of NC in 1995.

Marker is at the intersection of East Church Street (North Carolina Route 32) and Wood Avenue, on the right ...

Clarkdale Mill Village Historic District

Circa 1931

The Clarkdale Thread Mill and its 96 bungalow style homes were designed by the J. E. Sirrine Company of Greenville, South Carolina, a company noted for progressive mill village planning, for the Clark Thread Company, a Scottish company with ...

Dwight Mill Village

Dwight Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts selected this site in Alabama City for a cotton mill in 1894. The Mill and the village covering 240 acres was constructed under the direction of Howard Gardner Nichols.

There were 160 New England style ...

Whittier Cotton Mill and Village

Whittier Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts opened a new Atlanta factory on this site in 1896. Development of the mill complex included the construction of Whittier Mill Village, a mill-centered residential community for workers and their families, where a physician ...

Mill Village

Reede River Falls Historic Park

On the hills surrounding this site, a twenty-seven acre mill village, complete with churches, mill store and recreation grounds once served the Camperdown and Vardry Mills. Houses were built on both sides of the river. The ...

Glencoe - Life in the Mill Village

From Farm to Factory

The whole matter of providing attractive and comfortable habitations for cotton operatives [is] summarized in the statement that they are essentially a rural people…while their condition is in most cases decidedly bettered by going to the factory, ...

Mollohon Mill and Village

This mill was built and operated by the Mollohon Manufacturing Co. from 1901 to 1926, when it was sold to the Kendall CO.; the mill closed in 1976 and was razed in 1980. Original mill village housing was built 1901-02; ...

Calling the Mill Village 'Home'

Mill owners initially built villages near textile mills to attract families of workers. By 1900, 92% of workers lived in mill-owned housing. A typical mill village in the 1920s consisted of about 350 houses located within walking distance of the ...

Women in the Mill Village

The first waves of migration off the farms were primarily single women and widows. Since these women had limited access to land, they were eager to take the steady work and housing the textile mills provided. An example of this ...

African Americans in the Mill Village

African Americans experienced the textile mill world very differently than white families. Mills did not offer the same work opportunities to black men and women as they did for whites. Life in the mill village was also restricted, and black ...