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Topic: The Canton Cotton Mills

Jill Sands

Step 1 - Click on "Property Survey Database"

Step 2 - Click on viewing the data by "Name" - view the sites for the Canton Cotton Mill #1 and #2; write down address and surrounding streets

Step 3 - Click on viewing data by address - find structures surrounding the mills by correlating the street names with addresses. Note type of structure, when built, occupant, any other significant information.

1. What observations would you make about Main Street (division between old residential and new residential)
2. When and how did housing types differ?
3. Who were the occupants?
4. What, if anything, does the house say about their socioeconomic status? Why do you think that?
5. Compare houses by decades and see what structural changes took place, i.e. style, materials used
6. How far away was the nearest church in 1900? In 1910? 1920?
7. Where was Jones Mercantile in relation to the Mills? How was distance mutually beneficial for the merchant and consumer?
8. In the past, it has been more desirable to live outside of town - in the suburbs as people "escape" from their workplace. Why?
9. How would you describe the Mill Village residential character from the 1900s on?
10. What makes things different today?
11. Since school attendance became compulsory in the 1920s, how did the mill village include education as a priority?
12. Where were schools located?

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