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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Tennessee Woolen Mill Records, #1604, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mr. E. W. Walling of McMinnvile, Tenn., 1949.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bass, William W.
• Company stores--Tennessee--History.
• Industries--Tennessee--History.
• Industries--Tennessee--McMinnville--History.
• Liquidation--Tennessee--History--20th century.
• Tennessee Woolen Mill (McMinnville, Tenn.)
• Textile industry--Tennessee--History.
• Textile workers--Tennessee--Economic conditions.
• Woolen and worsted manufacture--Tennessee--History.

The Tennessee Woolen Mill Company was located in McMinnville, Tenn., and owned a mill and a company store where employees could purchase goods on credit. The business closed in 1938.

This collection contains records of the Tennessee Woolen Mill Company, a textile mill in McMinnville, Tenn. Volumes, 1890-1939, contain annual reports and inventories, minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, records of stock transactions, accounts of products sold and wages paid, records of hours worked and orders received, cash account records, and company store accounts. Papers, 1939-1943, are correspondence and reports of the trustees' liquidation of the mill. Also included is a description of the company store written in 1949 by William W. Bass, the son of an executive of the company. The papers are arranged in chronological order, but the volumes are not.

• Separated Volumes (SV-1604/3,6,7,10-12,15,17,19,25)