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Arista Cotton Mill

Arista Cotton Mill

By 1880, F. & H. Fries had outgrown their old mill in Salem. That year they began the Arista Cotton Mill across the street from the original Wachovia Cotton Mill, which they had acquired and were operating as a grist mill. The new mill was a three-story brick building with a two-story pyramidal-roofed stair tower. It was the first factory in the South to have electric lights.

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created
post 1880
creator
unknown
description
By 1880, F. & H. Fries had outgrown their old mill in Salem. That year they began the Arista Cotton Mill across the street from the original Wachovia Cotton Mill, which they had acquired and were operating as a grist mill. The new mill was a three-story brick building with a two-story pyramidal-roofed stair tower. It was the first factory in the South to have electric lights.
hasFormat
Glass Plate Negative
hasVersion
4020.274
identifier
https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/df9/ols_df9_00850.jpg, https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/df9/ols_df9_00850-th.jpg, https://hdl.handle.net/10339/16866
isPartOf
D F 9
isReferencedBy
ols_df9_00850
issued
post 1880
publisher
Old Salem Museums and Gardens
rightsHolder
Old Salem Museums and Gardens
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
title
Arista Cotton Mill
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