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Home from the Mill:
A mill worker's house was plain, but it was better than a sharecropper's shack. Rooms often had more than one purpose. This bedroom, typical of those in mill houses around 1925, would have also been a sitting room and a work room. Workers brought some furniture from the farm. The rest they made at home or purchased at the company store.
Houses were usually owned by the company. Monthly rent averaged 50 cents a room. Most houses had four to six rooms, including a kitchen. By 1925, many mill houses had electricity and plumbing. |