Browse Items (215 total)

  • Collection: Fries Textile Plant Records, 1900-1988 (Ms1989-039)
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A short missive from the president of Wachovia Loan and Trust Company and the founder and president of Washington Mills Company, Col. Francis H.…
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A letter explaining plans to build a new Baptist Church on Main Street in Fries, Va.
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A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.
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A document from a electoral judge for the Town of Fries, Va.
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A letter from the principal of the high school informing the mill adminstration that a tank in the Home Economics Cottage had begun to leak.
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A letter from the principal of the high school asking for scrap cloth to clean the school.
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A letter from Haywood Haynes informing the mill that he and his family would be coming to work at the mill, with information about his family and…
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A letter asking about a man detained in Atlanta who was possibly wanted for murder in Fries.
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A letter to responding to a telegram about a man potentially trying to convince mill employees to quit in order to work at another company.
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A map showing the intended layout for the mill.
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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…
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A letter from Herbert Neisser, MD, inquiring about a position at the mill.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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An image of a bobbin winding machine sent to the Fries mill.
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A letter to the mill superintendant asking about jobs for men being released from jail.
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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.
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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…
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A letter from a pharmacist in Galax, VA, reporting on unpayed accounts of mill employees for prescription drugs.
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A memo sent to all departments notifying them that the Fries Mill would shut down knitting operations.
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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.
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A letter introducing a new mill employee, sent to the Fries Mill from another mill owned by the Washington Mills Company.
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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…
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A letter from the mill president congratulating Fries High School students on their athletic accomplishments
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The deed of sale for a plot of land in Fries, Va. Sold by Wiley L. Roop to Washington Mills Company.
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A letter from the mayor of Fries requesting that the mill administration make some repairs to the town jail.
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A letter regarding some land given to the state in order to redo a state highway.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A letter regarding land for a maintenence road for Highway 94.
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A map of the area set aside for the right-of-way for Highway 94.
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A page of an early ledger tracking the Fries Mill's expenditures.
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A letter about a personnel change within the Fries Textile Mill.
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A letter to Dr. Wilmer Hodgson asking him to resign as mill doctor for Fries.
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A letter responding to another company's attempts to collect on an alleged $2 debt.
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The lease for the land and building in Fries for the grocery store, the rent for which was $1 per year.
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A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.
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A letter from the mill Vice President and Mayor of Fries, allowing the Highway Department to clean up a specified piece of land.
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A document granting the Virginia Department of Highways a certain amount of land to build a maintenance road for Highway 94.
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A text description of several parcels of land owned by the Washington Mills Company
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which The Washington Inn stood.
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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…
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the bank stood.
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the Brick Store Building stood.
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the parking lot stood.
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which buildings and a floodwall stood.
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the firehouse stood.
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A text description of a parcel of land owned by the Washington Mills Company, on which the Y.M.C.A. stood.
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