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Bird-s Eye View of the Orr Mill Village<br>Looking North from Mill
Photographer: South Carolina Postcards, Vol. IX: Anderson County, by Howard Woody
Taken: 1912
Caption: Bird-s Eye View of the Orr Mill Village
Looking North from Mill

Additional Description: This bird's-eye view of the Orr Mill Village shows the standard layout of a village with identical one-story cottages for small families and two-story structures for larger ones. In 1906 the village had a 1,500 population. The privies were located at the rear of each lot with a wagon path running between them for the entire distance of a street.
Submitted: September 22, 2010, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p129130
File Size: 0.081 Megabytes

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