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 The
Alpha Cotton Mills Village. UTM: 17
515442E 3898382N The D. A. Tompkins Co. built
the Alpha Cotton Mills for local investors in 1888-89. Tompkins
also erected the mill village on the hill to the immediate east of the
plant. A small cluster of three-room gable-roofed houses
survives. They are the only mill houses remaining in Center City
Charlotte. They bear dramatic testimony to the emergence of
Charlotte as a major cotton mill center in the late nineteen and early
twentieth centuries. |
