A Work In Progress
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Entire School turns out as mil house moves from Joyner to Cross street |
"Cotton mill folk from a cotton mill town They’re the finest people there are around And they’ll pick you up when you fall down.... I’m talking about the people in a cotton mill town." © by Sharp Canupp (below) |
   Former Residents of Old #16 Joyner Street
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 A mill house was a structure---provided by the mill company to house a mill worker’s family. Yet, it was so much more. Its production---from the garden, canning, cooking and sewing---might be counted as a small factory unto itself. But, as our elders all make clear, the main product of the mill house was a family. Within its walls, children learned respect, learned to share and to relish simple pleasures. The hard work of their parents served as an example. The care of neighbors for each other was practiced both by necessity and spiritual conviction. The Mill Family Life Museum will allow Cooleemee to tell the story of an ordinary mill hand’s family and its values. In the LOOM we have shared with you memories from the Canupp and
McDaniel The Cooleemee Historical Association needs your support now if we are to continue with this vital mission.
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families. Soon, the story of thousands of such families will be told
to future generations beginning in 2005.