Change in the Textile Mill Villages of South Carolina's Upstate During the Modern South Era

While the textile mill and the textile mill village were once prominent features of the landscape of the American South, textile mills are rapidly falling into disuse. Because the mill village housing stocks were sold by owners of the mills to their employees in the 1950s and 1960s, the fate of the...

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Main Author:	Jamieson, Claire E
Format:	Others
Published:	Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2010
Subjects:	textile mill villages one company towns Upstate South Carolina Human Geography
Online Access:	http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/635

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spelling	ndltd-UTENN-oai-trace.tennessee.edu-utk_gradthes-12982011-12-13T16:20:03Z Change in the Textile Mill Villages of South Carolina's Upstate During the Modern South Era Jamieson, Claire E While the textile mill and the textile mill village were once prominent features of the landscape of the American South, textile mills are rapidly falling into disuse. Because the mill village housing stocks were sold by owners of the mills to their employees in the 1950s and 1960s, the fate of the mill villages was, in part, divorced from the fate of the textile industry. This thesis demonstrates that mill villages are not abandoned after plant closures and explains why residents remain. This is achieved through a history of South Carolina’s mill villages, a quantitative analysis of Spartanburg County, South Carolina’s mill village housing stock, and the case of Piedmont, South Carolina. The study concludes that the mill villages of Upstate South Carolina became bedroom communities rather than ghost towns. 2010-05-01 text application/pdf http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/635 Masters Theses Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange textile mill villages one company towns Upstate South Carolina Human Geography
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description	While the textile mill and the textile mill village were once prominent features of the landscape of the American South, textile mills are rapidly falling into disuse. Because the mill village housing stocks were sold by owners of the mills to their employees in the 1950s and 1960s, the fate of the mill villages was, in part, divorced from the fate of the textile industry. This thesis demonstrates that mill villages are not abandoned after plant closures and explains why residents remain. This is achieved through a history of South Carolina’s mill villages, a quantitative analysis of Spartanburg County, South Carolina’s mill village housing stock, and the case of Piedmont, South Carolina. The study concludes that the mill villages of Upstate South Carolina became bedroom communities rather than ghost towns.
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title	Change in the Textile Mill Villages of South Carolina's Upstate During the Modern South Era
title_short	Change in the Textile Mill Villages of South Carolina's Upstate During the Modern South Era
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Change in the Textile Mill Villages of South Carolina's Upstate During the Modern South Era

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