Description

The Lindale Grist Mill is located in a small town of Lindale in Northwest Georgia. In 1896 Massachusetts Mills opened a new mill in Lindale, Georgia. The mill produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. 1,393 people were employed by the mill in 1903. In 1926, the mill was sold to West Point Pepperell, giving the community and the school the name, Pepperell. At the time the country was in the middle of a debate on child labor. Children as young as twelve (some say nine) were working the same weaving and spinning machines as adults were and at the same conditions that the adults were. Many people thought that the children should not be working at the conditions that they were.[1][2] In 1933 A few mill employees built a wooden star lined with lights to hang between the two smoke stacks at Christmas. Little did they know that this was the beginning of a very big tradition in Lindale. The star was hung between the two smoke stacks every year during the holidays.


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