City Directories and History: The links associated with this page from the Lewis Hines Photo Collection tell an important history of the textile industry in Chester, S.C., and elsewhere in the South. Click on the sites below to be linked with the Hines photo collection which can be viewed here or researched on the Hines website at: http://lewishinephotographs.com/
Shipment of cotton from Fairfield Co., SC to the mill in 1929 by W.M. Patrick.
Winthrop Un.’s Pettus Archives hold drawings via Rock Hill Architect, Mr. A.D. Gilchrist for the Eureka Boarding House in 1920 and the Eureka School in 1937.
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Note the location of Eureka Mill Village in 1912.
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