On Gates Street at Birnie Street, on the right when traveling north on Gates Street.
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Originally established as the Gates Desk Company in 1893, the mill was renovated and re-chartered as Carolina Cotton Mills in 1900. Mill ownership built 123 homes to house supervisors and workers, as well as a church and later a . . . — — Map (db m198656) HM
On Ravenel Street west of Smythe Street, on the right when traveling west.
Poinsett Mill sits on Gates Street above the Reedy River alongside the Southern Railway. One of Greenville’s oldest cotton mills, Poinsett was originally established in 1893 as the Gates Desk Company. With renovation in 1901 to be used as a yarn . . . — — Map (db m198839) HM
