The Avondale Mills were a system of textile mills located predominantly in Alabama, but also in Georgia and South Carolina, with headquarters in Birmingham...
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B. B. Comer (section Avondale Mills)
family, who intended to develop textile mills in the state, and he was appointed president of Avondale Mills, which he developed in Birmingham, serving...
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roughly 2:40 am EST, two Norfolk Southern trains collided near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville. Nine people were killed and over 250 people were...
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Avondale was a company town built around the Avondale Mills east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887...
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city-limit population jumped to 12,695. It was home to Avondale Mills and its legacy in the Avondale Mill Historic District. Pell City was founded in 1890 by...
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The Avondale Mill was a large gable-front stone structure, three stories in height, and 10 bays long by three wide. It was located on the bank of the...
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The Avondale Mill Historic District is a former mill village in Pell City, Alabama. Part of the Avondale Mills, the area is architecturally significant...
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had two textile mills, with Avondale Mills and Glen Raven, Inc. each operating a mill in the town. The closures of the Avondale Mills facility and Taylor...
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district includes a textile mill building, formerly the Avondale Mills, which closed in 2006 and is now known as Parkdale Mills. It includes a total of 428...
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Birmingham Folk Festival is an annual event held since 2006. It moved to Avondale Park in 2008. In 2009 the festival featured nine local bands and three...
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company was bought out by Avondale Mills, a company which was one of the largest denim manufacturers in the United States. Avondale closed or sold off all...
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modern textile mills, doffing machines have now replaced humans. The Industrial Revolution created growing demand for child labor in the mills and factories...
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under Lowe Mills, Inc. in January 1933, with Donald Comer, head of Birmingham's Avondale Mills, as majority stockholder. In 1936, Lowe Mill changed hands...
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Winooski, VT, in 1907 Model Mill Settlement, Chadwick Mills, Charlotte, N.C. Published c. 1905–1915 White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C. c. 1914 Aerial...
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Mignon, Alabama CDP The Avondale Mills in Mignon Location in Talladega County and the state of Alabama Coordinates: 33°10′58″N 86°15′52″W / 33.18278°N...
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freight train collided head-on with a parked freight train near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville, South Carolina. A derailed tank car ruptured...
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Hall, and O.C. Tiffany and the mill expanded greatly with the addition of the Avondale Mill building in 1844. Mill president Horace Capron with his...
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goods until 1969. Other early industries in the Avondale area included tanneries and mills. Avondale also had numerous market gardens, especially on the...
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killed by an early morning chlorine spill. According to Avondale Mills, owners of the Graniteville Mill, lingering chemical corrosion over the following months...
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Enterprise mills. The last seven company-owned dwellings were sold in 1969 (HAER, 8). Graniteville Company was purchased in turn by Avondale Mills in 1996...
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32.94; -85.941111 (Avondale Historic District) Alexander City Avondale Mills closed in 2006 and is now known as Parkdale Mills. 3 A.J. and Emma E. Thomas...
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Avondale University is an Australian private university affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education...
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Manufacturing Company in 1902. The company, along with B. B. Comer's Avondale Mills, turned Alex City into one of the textile centers of the South. In 1913...
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Avondale FC is an Australian semi-professional association football club, with the men's and women's teams based in Parkville and the junior sides based...
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entrance to the mill town of Laurel, Maryland on the other side of the Patuxent River. A bridge served as the community link to the Avondale Mill and main street...
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States Brewers' Association ads WPA Ralston Purina McCall's magazine Avondale Mills American Tobacco Company Coronet magazine Curtis Publishing Company...
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including Ammendale Normal Institute (1998), Troy Hill (1990), Duvall Farm, Avondale Mill (1991), St. Mary's College (1997), and Henryton State Hospital (2007...
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Operatives and Manufactures-- The Eleven Hour Rule-- The Flouring Mills-- Avondale--Arrear of Wages-- Machine Shops-- The Brag Farm-- Value of Land--...
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Former Avondale Mill Laurel Mall Laurel Sanitarium...
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valuable real estate that was lost to arson, including Troy Hill (1990), Avondale Mill (1991), Ammendale Normal Institute (1998), Phelps Log Cabin – moved...
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