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Souvenir Post Card Reveals 1917 Schoolfield Hospitality
A 1917 souvenir folder for Schoolfield, Dan River Mills area, highlights a hospitable village with mills, 80 cottages, sidewalks, water, and affordable housing. It touts nurseries, boarding houses, four churches, schools, free kindergarten, a YMCA, and a welfare focus for mill operatives. The town is described as suburban to Danville with easy rail access.
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Schoolfield
Dan River Mills, Inc
Dan River
Dan River Cotton Mills
Hylton Hall
Y.M.C.A
Danville
Southern Railway