Alester Furman Company Records, 1918-1977, (bulk) 1950-1970.

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Alester Furman Company Records, 1918-1977, (bulk) 1950-1970.

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The records from the Alester G. Furman Company document the sale of real estate, primarily residential housing, by textile manufacturing companies during the period approximately 1945-1970. The Furman Company served as the broker for the sale of real estate which, with respect to the residential housing, in most cases was sold to the mill workers. Furman handled the loan applications, insurance, and all other matters related to the sale. The textile manufacturers involved in these sales had their factories located in the Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. This collection documents one of the most significant turning points in the history of the textile industry. The sale of the mill villages changed the relationship between the mill and its workers while at the same time providing capital for the renovation of the mills. Perhaps equally important, the collection includes plates of the mill communities at the time of their sale. The records usually contain correspondence, records of financial dispersements, and sometimes insurance and other material related to the sales. Most of the sales and the bulk of the records are from the 1950s-1960s. Thereis an individual folder(s) for each mill community which often contains detailed listings of the names of the purchasers of homes and the amount of the purchase, method of payment, and status reports related to the liquidation of all properties and transfer of funds held in account. In the case of the J.P. Stevens Corporation, there is considerable documentation from the mid-1980s related to the sale of Stevens property after the purchase of that firm. In most cases, there are plat maps of the mill community or other property at the time of sale, although some plats may have been drawn up to several decades earlier. Documentation related to textile manufacturing companies includes Abney Mills, Aragon-Baldwin Cotton Mills, Bibb Manufacturing Company, Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills Company, Chiquola Manufacturing Company, Clifton Mills, Courtenay Manufacturing Company, Dundee Mills Company, Erwin Cotton Mills, Graiteville Manufacturing Company, Greenwood Mills, Hermitage Cotton Mill, and J.P. Stevens & Co., Norris Cotton Mills,

16 boxes (33.7 cubic ft.) 2 oversize boxes, 1 box of photographs, 22 oversize folders of blueprints in 5 map file drawers.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375791

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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J.P. Stevens & Co.

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The company, located in New York City, was founded in 1899 by John P., Nathaniel and Samuel Stevens as the family-controlled selling agent for fabrics produced by M.T. Stevens & Sons Co., North Andover, Mass. It sold woolen goods of M.T. Stevens and cotton fabrics from other mills and invested in a number of southern mills, including producers of synthetics. After John P.'s death in 1929, sons Robert T. and John P., Jr. took charge, with Robert T. as president from 1929 to 1942....

Norris Cotton Mills.

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Hermitage Cotton Mill.

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Piedmont Manufacturing Company (Piedmont, S.C.)

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Chiquola Manufacturing Company

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Bibb Manufacturing Company

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Pacific Mills

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The company was a cotton and worsted manufacturer located in Lawrence, Mass. From the description of [Payroll record]. 1897. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50083831 Pacific Mills incorporated in 1853; textile mills built by the Essex Company, Lawrence, Mass.; in 1923 had 27 brick buildings and a floor space of 135 acres; at that time the largest manufacturer in the world of percales; also produced a variety of other fabrics. From t...

Burlington Industries, Inc.

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Burlington Industries, Inc., founded by James Spencer Love (1896-1962), opened its first cotton manufacturing plant in 1924 in Burlington, N.C., with 200 employees. (An early name was Burlington Mills Corporation; the name was changed to Burlington Industries, Inc. in 1955.) The company grew quickly by switching to rayon manufacturing. During the 1920s and 1930s, Burlington added plants, a New York City sales office, and, in 1935, moved its corporate headquarters from Burlington to Greensboro, N...

Thomaston Mills.

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Courtenay Manufacturing Company.

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Abney Mills

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Cannon Mills Company

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Erwin Cotton Mills

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1892 Erwin Cotton Mills incorporated, the Duke family owning a controlling interest with Benjamin N. Duke as president and William Allen Erwin as manager. 1893 Mill No. 1 in West Durham began operation 1896 Mill No. 1 doubled in size ...

Dundee Mills Company.

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Graniteville Manufacturing Company

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Aragon-Baldwin Cotton Mills.

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Watts Mills.

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Greenwood Mills, Inc.

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Woodside Mills (Greenville, S.C.)

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Furman, Alester G. (Alester Garden)

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Alester Garden Furman III was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January 3, 1918. He attended Greenville Public Schools and graduated from Amherst College in 1939. Furman received a MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1941. He served in the United States Marine Corps 1941-1945. Beginning in 1946, Furman worked for the Alester G. Furman Company, now known as The Furman Company, which brokered securities, sold insurance and handled real estate transactions. He was its President 1961-1977 an...

Clifton Mills (S.C.)

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The financial records document a wide variety of corporate activities from paying its workers to purchasing raw cotton to the sale and transfer of its stock. These records represent only a portion of all the financial records generated by Clifton, the missing records being lost or destroyed. There is overlap in subjects and type of material among the series in this collection but it is particularly the case with the financial records because almost all the firm's records are related in one manne...

Victor-Monaghan, Inc.

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