West Point Rice Mill Company records, 1860-1926.

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West Point Rice Mill Company records, 1860-1926.

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Records of West Point Rice Mill Company and Chisolm's Mills consist of correspondence, receipts, leases, and other items. Chisolm's Mills records include a "Report of Water taken by Boats from Hydrant at Chisolm's Mill" (1889); notebooks (1889-1910), mostly of Chisolm Mill's agent Robert E. Mellichamp, which are partly business journals but which also contain miscellaneous memoranda, accounts, and other information; a cashbook (1892-1896); leases and other legal documents, with related correspondence and sketches showing the locations of buildings on Chisolm's Mills property (1889-1912); loose receipts and receipt books (ca. 1889-ca. 1914) for wage payments, lumber, wharfage, rice shipments, and other transactions; delivery orders; bills; business correspondence (1889-1914) of Robert E. Mellichamp with J.L. Sheppard, president of the Planters' & Merchants' Rice Mill (Charleston, S.C.), Samuel G. Stoney, president of West Point Rice Mill Company, and many customers; rice accounts; and an inventory (n.d.) of the "affixed and unaffixed property at Chisolm's Mill, other than residences & outhouses." West Point Rice Mill Co. records include a cash account book (1918-1926);a receipt book (1860-1864) and loose receipts; lists of stockholders (1866-1925); stockholders' proxies; company reports to stockholders and profit and loss statements; correspondence, mainly that of Samuel G. Stoney; papers pertaining to the purchase (and later the sale) of Chisolm's Mills, including a mortgage (1888), bonds (1888), reports (1914-1916), and related correspondence; and a checkbook (1915-1916) for dividend payments (mostly stubs). Other items include printed port regulations (1851-1895) of the Charleston Harbor Commissioners; and a pamphlet (1891) entitled "Rules and Regulations of the City of Charleston Water Works Company."

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Sheppard, John L., b. 1842.

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West Point Rice Mill Company (Charleston, S.C.)

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The West Point Rice Mill was located on the Ashley River, at the west end of Calhoun Street in Charleston, S.C. The West Point Rice Mill Company was granted a charter by the State of South Carolina in 1861. In 1888 the company purchased the machinery, equipment, and property of Chisolm's Mills (built in the late 1820's), rice and lumber mills located at the west end of Tradd Street; this property was purchased in 1914 by the U.S. Government for use as a depot. West Point Rice Mill Company ceased...

Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1853-1926.

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Charleston, South Carolina plantation owner and businessman. His uncle was Peter Gaillard Stoney, and his grandfather was John Stoney, who made a claim against the U.S. government for the seizure of his merchant ship by the French in the 1790s. William Edmund Stoney was the son of Peter Gaillard Stoney. From the description of French spoilation claims papers, 1884-1885. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144582 ...

Mellichamp, Robert E.

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Chisolm's Mills (Charleston, S.C.)

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