- Take a tour of Alabamas historic grist mills - al. com
Kenan's Mill is a living-history museum in Selma According to RuralSWAlabama org, the grist mill, built in the 1860s, was operated by the Kenan family for more than 100 years before it closed
- Road Trip No. 57 Old Mill Towns of Alabama: Valley, Lanett. . .
Looking for information on state parks, hot spots to have fun in the sun, or the best places for fishing or bird-watching? How about the world’s best museums or science centers? The Alabama Vacation guide will help you discover so many new and unique experiences
- Textile Industry in Alabama - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Though only a handful of mills existed in the early nineteenth century in Alabama, the textile industry soon became essential to many local economies Entire families left sharecropping and tenant farming or their own land and moved into textile mill villages, staying for generations
- Avondale Mills - Wikipedia
The Avondale Mills were a system of textile mills located predominantly in Alabama, but also in Georgia and South Carolina, with headquarters in Birmingham, and later in Sylacauga, Alabama The Birmingham neighborhood of Avondale was chosen to be the site of the first mill, hence the naming of the company
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