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

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One-room schoolhouses were popular in early Alabama as these photographs indicate - Alabama Pioneers February 11, 2015

[…] were required to work in factories to help support their families rather than attend school. Some Textile Mills tried to solve the problem by setting up schools next to the factories so children could attend […]

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1. Dennis Wayne Smith August 21, 2017
  
  I would bet they learned more there than the kids do today.
  
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Debbie Hubbert Thomas January 27, 2016

My mom went to a mill school in Fayette Alabama

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Kathy Foster Phillips January 27, 2016

My older siblings attended the Avondale Mill school in Pell City, Alabama.

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Randy Lewis January 27, 2016

I’m glad someone had a little foresight, I want to believe any kind of school is better than no school at all.

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Patricia Pollard January 27, 2016

There was a Mill School in Opp AL. Not sure when it was founded.

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Mary Lee Gaffin January 27, 2016

Thank you for featuring a bit of Merrimack Mill Village history!

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Rhonda Johnson Carden January 27, 2016

Lincoln School in Huntsville was apparently a good school.

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