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Washington Mills

Washington Mills Workers

Washington Mills workforce

Washington Mills workforce, early 1900's. Note child laborers.

Washington Mills workforce

Washington Mills workforce, early 1900's. Note child laborers.

Mayo Mills workforce

Mayo Mills workforce, date unknown

Roy "Pap" Farmer outside the mill, 1912

Francis H. Fries

Col. Francis H. Fries (1855-1931), co-founder of Mayo Mills

W. C. Ruffin (1865-1921), co-founder of Mayo Mills

W. C. Ruffin, co-founder of Mayo Mills, 1896

Washington Mills workforce

Washington Mills knitting room workers, 1931 L-R: Am Tullock (Supervisor), Monroe Alley, Connie Adkins, Hezekiah Watson, Walter Holt, Walter Allred

Washington Mills workforce

Washington Mills knitting room workers, 1931 L-R: Norman Shreve, Johnny White, John Willie Richardson, Elmer Duncan, Casey Jackson, Munford Tuggle, Russell Fulcher, Marvin Doss

Washington Mills pressing department

Washington Mills Pressing Department, 1931

Employees at Mayo Lake

Employees at Mayo Lake, date unknown

Washington Mills Exterior Views

Mill exterior, date unknown

Mill exterior as it appeared during WWI

Mayo Mills exterior

Mayo Mills exterior, date unknown

Washington Mills

Mill exterior, 1930s

Mill exterior, 1940s

Aerial view of mill

Aerial view of mill, date unknown

Mill office with mill to the right in the distance. From left: W. C. Ruffin, T. H. Turner, unknown

Mill office as it appeared in 1995

Washington Mills Interior Views

Mayo Mills interior

Mayo Mills interior, c.1900

Washington Mills opening room

Washington Mills opening room, late 1950s,

Washington Mills picker room

Washington Mills picker room, late 1950s

Washington Mills cutting room

Washington Mills cutting room, late 1950s

Washington Mills spinning room

Washington Mills spinning room, late 1950s

Washington Mills receiving room

Washington Mills receiving room, early 1950s

Washington Mills knitting room

Washington Mills knitting room, late 1950s

Washington Mills carding room

Washington Mills carding room, late 1950s

Washington Mills combing room

Washington Mills combing room, late 1950s

Washington Mills sewing room

Washington Mills sewing room, late 1950s

Washington Mills Housing

Mill houses on S. 4th Avenue, Mayodan about 1931

Located on First Avenue in Mayodan, the homes of mill supervisors and managers were known as “Big Row”

unidentified house

Unidentified house in Mayodan

Mill house, date unknown