Courtenay Manufacturing Company.

Courtenay Manufacturing was incorporated in 1893 with $300,000 in capital. That year, a site in Oconee County was selected for building the textile mill at a place called Newry. The following year, on June 14, 1894, the Courtenay Manufacturing Company began operations using water power. By 1903, the firm was producing fine sheetings for converting proposes with 19,440 ring spindles and 635 forty inch looms. The Courtenay family continued to manage the business until the 1920s when the firm was sold to Isaqueena Mills of Central, South Carolina. It produced pajama checks and carded broadcloth with 25,344 spindles in 1927 and used a combination of water and steam generated power from three boilers. In 1930, the stock and property was sold to Cannon Mills in North Carolina. The Abney Mills bought the mill in 1939. After World War II, Courtenay Manufacturing operated as a unit of Abney Mils producing print cloths until its closure in 1975. The mill houses were sold in 1959, primarily to their tenants.