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Greenville, South Carolina Textile Mills, 1915–1927Collection of 8 Original Hand-Drawn Engineering PlatsEight original ink drawings from the R.E. Dalton / Dalton & Neves engineering office of Greenville, S.C., documenting the city\'s textile mills and mill villages at their height: Mills Mill, Dunean, American Spinning, Judson, Woodside, and Poe.1. Property of Mills Mill, Feb. 1927 (Dalton & Neves). The full 86-acre mill property, with the Main Mill, warehouse, rail siding, and Brushy Creek drawn. Every mill-village house is drawn and numbered on Reeves, Ligon, Seth, Green, Mission, Park, Otis, Spring, Walnut, and Chestnut Streets. Dunean Mills and the Southern Franklin Process Co. adjoin.2. Map of Mills Mill School District, Oct. 1916. District No. 8C, 9.10 square miles, recorded in Plat Book D. Mills Mill and Dunean Mill are both drawn, along with the P&N and C&G railroads, Charles Station, the National Highway, and neighboring school districts.3. American Spinning Co., Dec. 1915. A proposed right-of-way through Southern Railway property, showing Cotton Mill No. 1, Cotton Mill No. 2, warehouses, a waste house, tool house, hydrant houses, the main line to Charlotte, and the Buncombe Street car line.4. Property of Mills Mfg. Company, Sept. 1921. Land between Mills Mill and Dunean Mills, with the Dunean-Mills School and O.P. Mills property.5. H.B. Bates, Anderson Road, Dec. 1921. A 76-lot mill-village subdivision bordering Judson Mills, recorded in Plat Book F, Page 32.6. Sunny Slope, May 1919. A five-block mill neighborhood adjoining Woodside Mills.7 & 8. Henry Briggs, Dec. 1922 and Jan. 1923. Industrial property beside F.W. Poe Mfg. Co., with a planing mill, lumber shed, office, Gulf Refining Co., Southern Railway sidings, and the Greenville & Laurens Railroad.Original working drawings, not prints or reproductions, saved when a Greenville engineering firm cleared its old records.Condition: Good for their age. Expect light toning, binding-hole tears along the top edges, and some pencil notes. The Mills Mill 1927 sheet has a center fold crease and light spotting. The Mills Mfg. sheet has cockling and a water stain in the upper right. The Sunny Slope sheet has small tears at the top edge. Please see all photos.
