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Fries Textile Co. Employee Award presentation, the Whis Farmer Family with John Belvins in the foreground

Gene Taylor (Shift Manager, Carding 3rd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Raymond Sapp (Award Winner)

Early Doss (Shift Manager, Weaving, 1st Shift), Ralph Vaughan (Award Winner), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Rose Vaughan (Mother of Ralph), Jack Bowman (Weaving Mill Manager)

Tom Hill and Phipps Moore

Tom Hill and Gladys Pollard

Ethel Walker 35 year service award, presented by Walter Johnson

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

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 "Miss Fries High School" of 1978 and two runners-up.

B, R: Kirb. F, L-R: George Stuart, "Hetty" Alice Pearman, Funk

A note from a surveyor hired by the mill

A memorandum from a surveyor regarding work he was contracted to do for the mill.

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

A map of surveyed parcels of land owned by the Washington Mills Company.

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

A map of a piece of land in Fries being repurposed, and a propsed alternate location for carrying out the original purpose of the property being sold.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A map of a piece of land in Fries being sold by the Washington Mills Company to James E. Robinson Jr.

A text description of a parcel of land owned formerly by the Washington Mills Company, which was being to sold to the employee who had been renting it and the house on it.

A map of a surveyed parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company on which the YMCA stands.

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

A letter sent to a lawyer with the legal description and plat of the parcel of land on which the Y.M.C.A. building stands, requesting a deed be drawn up.

Betty Thornton, Betty Sexton, Lela Funk, Ruth Reever, and Kate Byrd

Jackie Sharp in a field with many others in front of a helicopter

Jackie Sharp in a field with a man

Jackie Sharp and Glenda Lyons standing in front of a Christmas tree

Sena and Harold Funk with a newborn baby

Adeline Shupe is shown something by a man

4th from the back: Boyd "Mac" Tsom

Back, left to right: Gilbert Lawson, unknown, unknown, Walter Johnson. F, M: Robert Blaine Wright

Hobart Lane, right

Three men stand together, facing the camera, in front of textile machinery.