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A photograph of a group of people in front of the sign for the high school in Fries, Va. Back Row, left-right: Don Martin, Rick Phipps, Mike Phipps, Ricky Wilson. Front Row, left-right: Warren Reavis, Mr. Stone, Diane Staynes, John Patterson

A photograph of a cub scout group with their leaders. 2nd from the left, ront row, is Timmy "TT" Carico

A photograph of a mill-employed nurse administering a shot to another employee, with a line of others waiting behind her.

A photograph of a mill employee monitoring yarn spinning.

A photograph of a group of employees, one of whom is receiving an award. Left-right: Calvert Wilie, Jessie Jenkins, Emmet Vaughan, rest unknown.

A photograph of two mill employees responsible for transferring yarn bobbins from one stage to another.

A photograph of several employees conversing near machines winding spun yarn onto bobbins for weaving.

A photograph of the weaving department of the Fries Mill in front of a calendar indicating that they had gone one year without injury on the job.

A photograph of an employee receiving a plaque and a statue of a bird.

A photograph of employees in line to get food in the mill cafeteria, with a "Zero Defects Our Goal" banner in the backround.

A photograph of employees eating in the mill cafeteria, with a "Zero Defects Our Goal" banner in the backround

A taped-together collage of informal employee photograps. Top, left-right: unknown, Cox, Jones, unknown. Middle, left-right: unknown, Henry Thornton, unknown, unknown. Bottom, left-right: unknown, Hutch Stata, Walter Johnson.

A photograph of Ronni Michelle Criner as "Little Miss Fries" in a town parade.

A formal photograph of the Fries High School football team. Back row, left-right: Mike Phipps, Don Martin, unknown, unknown, Todd Dickson, unknown, unknown, unknown, Johnny Lambert, unknown, Bill Moore, unknown, unknown, unknown, Richy Wilson, Rick…

A photograph of six young women in matching cheerleading outfits, on a stage with pompoms.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the Y.M.C.A. stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the firehouse stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which buildings and a floodwall stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the parking lot stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the Brick Store Building stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the bank stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the post office, barber shop, beauty shop, and insurance agency stood.

A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which The Washington Inn stood.

A text description of several parcels of land owned by the Washington Mills Company

A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.

A letter from the mill Vice President and Mayor of Fries, allowing the Highway Department to clean up a specified piece of land.

A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.

The lease for the land and building in Fries for the grocery store, the rent for which was $1 per year.

A letter responding to another company's attempts to collect on an alleged $2 debt.

A letter to Dr. Wilmer Hodgson asking him to resign as mill doctor for Fries.

A letter about a personnel change within the Fries Textile Mill.

A page of an early ledger tracking the Fries Mill's expenditures.

A map of the area set aside for the right-of-way for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.

A letter regarding some land given to the state in order to redo a state highway.

A letter from the mayor of Fries requesting that the mill administration make some repairs to the town jail.

The deed of sale for a plot of land in Fries, Va. Sold by Wiley L. Roop to Washington Mills Company.

A letter from the mill president congratulating Fries High School students on their athletic accomplishments

A letter from the treasurer of the Washignton Mills Company inquiring about several employees wh had quit their jobs in North Carolina in order to work at the mill in Fries.

A letter introducing a new mill employee, sent to the Fries Mill from another mill owned by the Washington Mills Company.

A letter to a former mill employee accusing him of trying to convince his former coworkers at the mill to quit and join him at his new company.

A memo sent to all departments notifying them that the Fries Mill would shut down knitting operations.

A letter from a pharmacist in Galax, VA, reporting on unpayed accounts of mill employees for prescription drugs.

A letter from Mrs. Patsie Pruitt asking for her job back at the mill. She had moved to Maryland, but wanted to go back to Fries because child labor laws in Maryland prevented her children from working.

A map showing plots of land aquired by the Washington Mills Company to build the Fries Textile Mill and the Town of Fries as of 1901.