American Spinning Mill, with $125,000 capital, started operations in September 1895. Oscar H. Sampson (1828-1904) of Sampson, Hall, and Company of Boston, Mass, late in 1891, had purchased from the estate of Henry P. Hammett, former president of . . . — — Map (db m198781) HM
By June of 1900, J. Irving Westervelt’s (1862-1939) dream of a new 5 story, 10,000 spindle, 400 loom cotton mill was under construction. Lockwood, Greene, and Company designed the mill. Built by local engineer Jacob W. Cagle (1832-1910), . . . — — Map (db m198782) HM
In early 1874, Oscar Sampson (1828-1904) and George Hall chartered Camperdown #1 mill. By June 1874, it was in full operation in the Vardry McBee brain mill. Camperdown #2 was in full operation by December 1875. By 1880, the Camperdown spinning . . . — — Map (db m198783) HM
Dunean Mills and village were organized on March 11, 1911, under leadership of “The Dean of Textile Men” Capt. Ellison Adger Smyth (1847-1945) a national leader in the textile industry for more than 60 years. Through the influence of engineer J.E. . . . — — Map (db m198827) HM
In early 1910, J. Irving Westervelt (1862-1939) was chosen by a northern textile machinery coalition to manager their new southern textile mill venture. Lockwood, Greene, and Company was chosen to design the village and mill. Gallivan Construction . . . — — Map (db m198828) HM
Under the entrepreneurial leadership of Otis Prentiss Mills and his son-in-law Walter Moore, the Mills Manufacturing Company was chartered in July, 1896. Utilizing part of the land he had purchased during the 1870s, that ran from Augusta Street . . . — — Map (db m198829) HM
Monaghan Mill and village were established in 1900 by cousins Lewis Wardlaw Parker (1865-1916) and Thomas Fleming Parker (1860-1926). The mill and village were named in memory of their grandfather’s native county in Ireland. Located on 325 acres . . . — — Map (db m198830) HM
Desiring to organize a new school district that would provide a high school for the 14 textile communities that wormed a west side crescent around Greenville, a group of mill executives, in 1922, petitioned the state Legislature to create the Parker . . . — — Map (db m198859) HM
When Henry Pinckney Hammett (1822-1891), bought the property for his cotton mill, the area was named Piedmont, “Foot of the Mountains”. On April 30, 1873, subscribers met at Greenville to organize the Piedmont Manufacturing Company. Hammett was . . . — — Map (db m198835) HM
Francis Winslow Poe (1853-1926) established the Poe Mill in 1896 on sixty acres of land in Greenville, South Carolina, known as “Governor’s Hill”. The mill was built adjacent to the main line of the Southern Railroad and the nearby White Oak branch . . . — — Map (db m198837) HM
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
In 1927 Horatio Nelson Slater III (1892-1968), the great grandson of Samuel slater who built the first textile mill in America in 1790, purchased 466 acres of property in Northern Greenville county to build a textile mill and “village”. The village . . . — — Map (db m198846) HM
The Union Bleaching and Finishing Company began operations in 1903. It was the second custom finishing company in S.C. It was one of four original plants worldwide licensed to use the Sandfordizing Process, which reduced shrinkage of cotton cloth. . . . — — Map (db m198847) HM
In 1902, John Thomas Woodside (1864-1946), worked closely with two of his brothers, Edward F. Woodside (1875-1943) and J. David Woodside (1871-1945) to organize Woodside Cotton Mills. With a capital stock of $200,000, John became the first . . . — — Map (db m198858) HM
