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February 4, 2024 April 18, 2024by Donna R Causey

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AUTHOR SUNDAY – I knew something about mules, wagons, cotton and cotton houses

June 5, 2022 February 5, 2023by Joan Clark Mann

Childhood Memories of a 1950's Alabama Farmlife by Joan Clark Mann (Photographs submitted by Joan Clark Mann) June, 2011 I know something about mules,…

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“Today, this old cotton mill village in Huntsville has” been revitalized [vintage pictures]

May 21, 2022 May 13, 2022by Donna R Causey

In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the…

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PATRON + These are haunting photographs of young cotton mill workers in Alabama

May 3, 2022 December 19, 2022by Donna R Causey

These photographs of young cotton mill workers taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in November and December 1913 are haunting. Merrimack mill was located in Huntsville,…

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PATRON + Some cotton mill children went to school if you can call them schools [old photographs]

August 24, 2020 July 7, 2020by Donna R Causey

The first two photographs are labeled morning attendance at a Mill school in Huntsville taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in December 1913. It may…