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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. Fries, thanking the mill superintendent for sending updates about operations. Includes and example of the…

A letter explaining plans to build a new Baptist Church on Main Street in Fries, Va.

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

A document from a electoral judge for the Town of Fries, Va.

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.

A letter from the principal of the high school asking for scrap cloth to clean the school.

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 their housing needs.

A letter asking about a man detained in Atlanta who was possibly wanted for murder in Fries.

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.

A map showing the intended layout for the mill.

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.

A letter from Herbert Neisser, MD, inquiring about a position at the mill.

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

An image of a bobbin winding machine sent to the Fries mill.

A letter to the mill superintendant asking about jobs for men being released from jail.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A text description of several 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 Washington Inn 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 bank 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 parking lot 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 firehouse stood.

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