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The mill built over 360 houses, most with four
rooms and a lot large enough for a garden and smokehouse. Residents
hauled water to each home from community pumps. From the 1920s until
1953, when the mill offered to sell the houses, rent remained at 25
cents per room per week. After World War II, paving replaced the
dirt streets packed with coal cinders. (Courtesy of Textile Heritage
Center at Cooleemee.)