This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wooten,Reid,Rochester,Whitmire,Tarrant,Lovinggood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YeB.2ACI/547 Message Board Post: If possilbe I need to find out about the following....... I am trying to find a cotton mill owned by Robert and William White. It was located on or near Big Rabon Creek, and possibly called "Laurens Cotton Factory". This mill burned down around 1837-1838. Near the mill was a grist mill, I need to find out about it if possible to. According to what I am reading this would have been a fair-sized community,if there were a cotton mill there. When the mill burned down, there was a school put up near it also.....this would have been around 1838 possibly. The school teacher would have been Reuben Reid, he died Dec 24,1838,I don't know what happened to the school after that,as I "think" he was the only teacher there. Any help at all will appericated. Linda
This sounds like the fairly-well-known "Burnt Factory". I do not have any record of White ownership, but I have 2 deeds in my notes that refer to this property, I believe. The Historical Map of Laurens County, Item 10, shows the location of this property as being on the South Branch of Rabun Creek. "Site of first factory in County organized in 1829 by John Garlington, Wm. F. Downs and Richard F. Simpson for manufacture of cotton thread. Known originally as Laurens Cotton and Wool Factory. Was burned in 1837". Deed Book N, page 54, has John Garlington selling his interest in the "Cotton Factory" to Richard F. Simpson. (Company name Garlington, Downs, and Simpson). Mentions deed from ??? Wilson and W. F. Downs. No acreage or location given, but the year was 1834. Deed Book N-72. 1834, shows a survey of property at the request of W F Downs and Richard F. Simpson, 86 acres on Rabun Creek. I believe that this was done in preparation for sale of the property to Richard F. Simpson. The survey shows a mill pond. I do not have any mention of a Reuben Reed / Reid in my notes. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lindasplaying@yahoo.com> To: <SCLAUREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:12 AM Subject: [SCLAUREN] Cotton Mill/Grist Mill..........need look-up please > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wooten,Reid,Rochester,Whitmire,Tarrant,Lovinggood > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YeB.2ACI/547 > > Message Board Post: > > If possilbe I need to find out about the following....... > I am trying to find a cotton mill owned by Robert and William White. It > was located on or near Big Rabon Creek, and possibly called "Laurens > Cotton Factory". This mill burned down around 1837-1838. Near the mill > was a grist mill, I need to find out about it if possible to. According to > what I am reading this would have been a fair-sized community,if there > were a cotton mill there. When the mill burned down, there was a school > put up near it also.....this would have been around 1838 possibly. The > school teacher would have been Reuben Reid, he died Dec 24,1838,I don't > know what happened to the school after that,as I "think" he was the only > teacher there. > Any help at all will appericated. > Linda > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >