Use These Pages to Learn About the Different Aspects of Mill Life

Resources

This page contains the information for the information used to make this site. Students should use these resources for further research.


Websites:


A Historic Resources Survey of the Gadsden-Lancaster Streets CorridorChester, South Carolina


Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940


Documenting the American South


Documenting the American South Mill News


Learn NC


Old West Durham


OLYMPIA MILL AND VILLAGE Upper Richland County, South Carolina Historical and Architectural Inventory


South Carolina Postcards


WORK 'N PROGRESS: Lessons in the History of American Labor for Middle and Secondary Students




Books:


Browning, Wilt (1990). Linthead: growing up in a Carolina cotton mill village. Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press.


Hall, J. Dowd. (2000). Like a family: the making of a Southern cotton mill world. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.