Simpsonville in Greenville County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Simpsonville Cotton Mill
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Woodside Mill

Simpsonville Cotton Mill Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

1. Simpsonville Cotton Mill Marker

Inscription. Simpsonville Cotton Mill This mill, opened in 1908, was built after several leading men of Simpsonville asked Edward F. Woodside of the Pelzer Manufacturing Co. to help them establish a textile mill. The Simpsonville Cotton Mill, with Woodside as president and his brother John T. as secretary, opened with 8,000 spindles and 200 looms, making several kinds of cotton cloth. By 1911 it boasted 25,000 spindles and 600 looms.

Woodside MillIn 1911 this mill was merged with Fountain Inn Cotton Mill and Woodside Cotton Mill in Greenville to create Woodside Cotton Mills. This branch was Simpsonville's largest employer until after World War II, with as many as 650 employees in the 1950s and 1960s. The mill village, with four streets of mill houses, included a company store, recreation building, and baseball field. The Woodside Gym, built in 1947, is now part of the Simpsonville Senior Center.

Erected 2011 by Cotton Mill Place and Para Chem, Inc. (Marker Number 23-50.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Industry & Commerce. A significant historical year for this entry is 1908.

Location. 34° 44.167′ N, 82° 15.483′ W. Marker is in Simpsonville, South Carolina, in Greenville County. It is on West Curtis Street near South Street (County Road 669), on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 300 South Street, Simpsonville SC 29681, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate

and in the Greater Greenville-Spartanburg Area. It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original

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Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 10 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Old Stage Road / Railroads in Simpsonville (approx. 0.2 miles away); Hendricks' Plaza (approx. 0.2 miles away); Simpsonville Clock Tower (approx. 0.2 miles away); Lawrence Lafayette Richardson, M.D. (approx. 0.2 miles away); Simpsonville (approx. 0.2 miles away); Simpsonville Methodist Church (approx. ¼ mile away); Simpsonville Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); Simpsonville Baptist Church (approx. 0.4 miles away); Cedar Grove Baptist Church/ Simpsonville Rosenwald School (approx. 0.4 miles away); Simpsonville Library (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Simpsonville.

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

2. Simpsonville Cotton Mill Marker

Woodside Mill Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

3. Woodside Mill Marker

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

4. Woodside Mill Marker

Simpsonville Cotton - Woodside Mill image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

5. Simpsonville Cotton - Woodside Mill

Woodside Mill Recreation Center image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brian Scott, October 14, 2012

6. Woodside Mill Recreation Center

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on October 15, 2012, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 3,305 times since then and 137 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on October 15, 2012, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.

Simpsonville Cotton Mill⎯⎯⎯Woodside Mill

Simpsonville Cotton Mill
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Woodside Mill