The Yorkville Enquirer of Sept. 15, 1886 reported – “Langley and Bath, were hard hit by the Charleston earthquake. The Langley Dam will need to be replaced and the 300 employees are out of work because the mill had to be closed.” On Dec. 8, 1886 the paper reported – “Failure of the Langley Dam created a deluged of water that ruined considerable property and wrecked a railroad train. Construction began immediately to replace the dam, but on last Thursday the replacement dam failed. The contractor is Mr. Twiggs. Work will begin soon to repair the dam.”
The Yorkville Enquirer of July 13, 1887 reported – “The Craig Kaolin Co., of Aiken started work last week, employing a number of hands.” (Location unknown)
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In South Carolina alone, from 1894 to 1903 the firm designed and built sixteen mills, including four that Wm. B. Smith Whaley owned and managed himself in Columbia–Richland (1894–1895), Granby (1896), Capital City (1899), and Olympia (1899–1900). Other textile mills included the Courtenay Mill in Newry (1893–1894), the Enterprise Mill in Orangeburg (1896), the Warrenville Mill in Aiken County (1897), the Buffalo Mill in Union County (1899), the Lancaster Mills for the textile magnate Leroy Springs (1900), the DeKalb Mill in Camden (1900), and the Glenn-Lowry Mill in Whitmire (1900). In 1899–1900 Whaley built his masterpiece, the 2,400-loom, 104,000-spindle, four-story Olympia Mill near Columbia. Courtesy of the SC Encyclopedia Website
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