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

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

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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.

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

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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…

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

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A map of a piece of land in Fries giving landmarks by which a survey could be conducted.

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A map of a piece of land in Fries giving landmarks by which a survey could be conducted.

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A map of a piece of land in Fries giving landmarks by which a survey could be conducted.

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A letter explaining some features of plat drawn up by a surveyor on behalf of the mill.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 up.

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

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A map of surveyed 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 firehouse 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 parking lot 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 bank 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 stood.

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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 several parcels of land owned by the Washington Mills Company

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

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A note from a surveyor hired by the mill

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an indemnity bond between the First National Bank of Fries and the Washington Mills Company, to correct an error with their payroll.

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

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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 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 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 letter from a resident of Fries reporting their neighbor to the mill administration for perceived suspicious behavior.

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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 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 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 allowing the grocery store to build an extension to the building.

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

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