Huntsville Textile Mills Villages

Author : Terri L. French
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467137089

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Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages: Linthead Legacy by Terri L. French Pdf

In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.

Author : Terri L. French
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439661031

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Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages by Terri L. French Pdf

In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.

Author : Diane Kurek Kaiser,D Philipp Kaiser
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798399552651

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Dallas Mills, Dallas Village, & Dallas People by Diane Kurek Kaiser,D Philipp Kaiser Pdf

Dallas Mills, Dallas Village, & Dallas People is the true story of Dallas Mills from when it was only a dream back in the 1880s through its fiery end in the 1990s. It is the story of Dallas Village, and of "The Queen City of the South," Huntsville, Alabama. And it is a tribute to the more than 12,000 Dallas People listed in this book. This is Book 1 in a series of five books about the textile mills of Huntsville, Alabama. We have written it to answer the questions about the origin of the company, its development, and explosive growth and influence in Huntsville and Madison County, along with its unexpected labor and union problems and abrupt closure. To give long due credit to those who built and worked in the mill; those who made it what it was and helped transform "The Queen City of the South," Huntsville, into the city it is today, we have included the names of all the Dallas People we could discover. What we have written has been verified through multiple sources; however, our accuracy is directly dependent on the truthfulness of the sources that provided information over the past 130 years.

Author : Jennings Jefferson Rhyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Cotton growing
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013892090

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Some Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Their Villages by Jennings Jefferson Rhyne Pdf

Author : Cathy L. McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195364637

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Mill Family by Cathy L. McHugh Pdf

The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state. Families, especially those with many children, were therefore forced to look for work in the textile mills. Mill managers, in their own interest, created the basis for a distinctive social and economic structure: the Southern cotton mill village. These villages, which included such accoutrements as good schools for the children, were paternalistic work environments designed to attract this desirable source of workers. This book examines the role of the family labor system in the early evolution of the postbellum Southern cotton textile industry, revealing how the mill village served as a focal point of economic and social cohesion as well as an institution for socializing and stabilizing its workers. The paternalism of the mill villages was not merely an instrument of capitalistic indoctrination, contends McHugh, but was shaped by market forces. McHugh employs a valuable body of archival material from the Alamance Mill, an important cotton textile mill in North Carolina, to illustrate her arguments.

Author : Harriet L. Herring
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469650173

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Passing of the Mill Village by Harriet L. Herring Pdf

This is the story of a revolution--the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life resulting from the sales. Originally published in 1949. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Gary Kulik,Roger N. Parks,Theodore Z. Penn
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:39000005630988

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The New England Mill Village, 1790-1860 by Gary Kulik,Roger N. Parks,Theodore Z. Penn Pdf

This book documents the growth of industrial technology in these "little hamlets," covering the social, labor, economic, and technical aspects of this fascinating chapter in the development of American enterprise.

Author : Jessica Penot
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614232018

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Haunted North Alabama by Jessica Penot Pdf

The Deep South reveals its dark past, as the author of the Tattooed Girl series investigates the hauntings of her home state. Nestled in the scenic foothills of southern Appalachia, in the center of the Tennessee Valley, north Alabama is known for its natural beauty. Peppered with antebellum mansions and historic homesteads, it is a region rich in history, brimming with a unique cultural heritage. Yet amidst the beauty of these rolling hills and historic features, something dark lurks below the surface. The haunted spirits of the past run as wild as the Tennessee River through the region. Join author and Huntsville resident Jessica Penot on a terrifying trip through the chilling destinations of north Alabama, teeming with ghostly activity. From Florence to Huntsville to Albertville and points in between, Haunted North Alabama offers a broad survey of the history of haunted destinations in the upper regions of Alabama. Packed with over twenty haunted locales, this book is required reading for anyone interested in learning about the history of the phantom spirits that call the heart of Dixie home. Includes photos! “Marvelous . . . Good, reliable information on a number of Huntsville’s hauntings plus information on locations that were not included in the few articles on the subject.” —Southern Spirit Guide

Author : Debra Webb
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429917643

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Everywhere She Turns by Debra Webb Pdf

When Dr. CJ Patterson returns to her Southern hometown, she finds herself surrounded by a series of long-buried secrets—and a killer who seems to know her better than she knows herself... Drugs, prostitution, robbery, homicide—these are four terms that Dr. CJ Patterson learned all too well growing up on the seamy, forgotten streets of inner-city Huntsville, Alabama. Fiercely determined, CJ worked hard to forget where she came from and become an emergency medicine resident at a prestigious Baltimore hospital. But when her younger sister—the only family she ever had—is murdered, CJ is drawn back into the painful past she thought she'd left behind. Her unrelenting investigation uncovers a highly sophisticated web of shocking family secrets, dark obsession, and brutal violence and a killer who will stop at nothing to keep her from learning the truth.....

Author : Billie Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439659366

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Central Georgia Textile Mills by Billie Coleman Pdf

Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Tifton, Forsyth, Porterdale, and Hawkinsville, among others. The textile mills provided employment and sometimes a home in their villages to people across Georgia as the agrarian lifestyle gave way to industrial expansion. In these mills, photographer Lewis Hine captured iconic images of child labor. After the decline of production and closing of the mills, many have been revived into new usages that honor the legacy of the mill workers and their families who lived in the villages of the textile mills across Central Georgia.

Author : Katherine Leonard Turner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520957619

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How the Other Half Ate by Katherine Leonard Turner Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.

Author : Marjorie Adella Potwin
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013813302

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Cotton Mill People of the Piedmont by Marjorie Adella Potwin Pdf

Presents recorded observations of mill villages confined mostly to the central Piedmont region, extending from Danville, Virginia to Gainesville, Georgia with more intensive observation made of the cotton-mille people in and near Spartanburg, South Carolina. Specifically addresses population elements, social institutions and organizations, aspects of social legislation, and occupational conditions of the cotton-mill people.

Author : William Hays Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Cotton
ISBN : UIUC:30112113069592

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Life in Mill Communities by William Hays Simpson Pdf

Author : Leslie Nicole Thomas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439654637

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Legendary Locals of Huntsville by Leslie Nicole Thomas Pdf

First they came for the land, later they came for the stars and the moon; all found themselves against the glorious backdrop of the Tennessee Valley. Legendary Locals of Huntsville chronicles the story of Rocket City, a sleepy, Southern cotton town that weathered the Great Depression with its mill villages, gained national attention with Redstone Arsenal, blossomed into the center of aerospace development, and became the home of the largest arts center in the Southeast. Notables include pioneer John Hunt and founding father LeRoy Pope; aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun; world-renowned portrait artist and poet Howard Weeden and cobweb artist Anne Clopton; internationally known soprano Susanna Phillips; Professional Football Hall of Fame member John Stallworth; performing arts pioneers Helen Herriott and Loyd Tygett; and entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark C. Smith. The stories herein celebrate just a handful of the many people who have made a memorable impact on this community and who continue to propel Huntsville forward through leadership by example.

Author : Martin T. Olliff
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817354923

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The Great War in the Heart of Dixie by Martin T. Olliff Pdf

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the state’s cultural institutions and government react? What changes occurred in its economy and way of life? What, if any, were the long-term consequences in Alabama? The contributors to this volume address these questions and establish a base for further investigation of the state during this era. Contributors: David Alsobrook, Wilson Fallin Jr., Robert J. Jakeman, Dowe Littleton, Martin T. Olliff, Victoria E. Ott, Wesley P. Newton, Michael V. R. Thomason, Ruth Smith Truss, and Robert Saunders Jr.