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Photographer: South Carolina Postcards, Vol. IX: Anderson County, by Howard Woody
Caption: School Building, Orr Mills
Additional Description: The mill owners wanted operatives with a high educational level. August Kohn's book, Cotton Mills of South Carolina, called that "welfare work." This concept caused the directors to build schools with academic and industrial subjects, churches, meeting halls, and gyms. Orr Mills spent $1,000 for a 3-teacher school building for 547 students. M. O'Neal, principal, and two other teachers taught at this school in 1905.
Submitted: September 22, 2010, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p152565
File Size: 0.069 Megabytes

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