Historic Conestee Mill
by Kathy Barney
Title
Historic Conestee Mill
Artist
Kathy Barney
Medium
Photograph - Photography-digital Art
Description
"Reedy River Factory.
"[In] 1820: The South preferred to send its raw cotton to New England for spinning and and weaving when Vardry McBee and his Mill Right John Adams built this Dam at Conestee to power a paper and wood and cotton mill.
"the mill supplied the news print for thenews print for the papers of Greenville, Spartanburg, and Charlotte. When J.W. Grady and David O. Hawthorne took over the mill.
"[In] 1862 they worked around the clock to make uniforms for the Confederate Army. The Reedy River Plant was replaced by the Conestee Cotton Mill in 1898, running 12,000 spindles and 370 looms. It employed 225 persons, many of the grade school age.
CONESTEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, APRIL 1972."
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