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 Corridor, Chester, 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.