Olympia Cotton Mill

Olympia Cotton Mill

1900–June 28, 1996

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  • Title Olympia Cotton Mill
  • Coverage 1900–June 28, 1996
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  • Keywords one of four mills designed and built in Columbia between 1895 and 1904 by the industrialist W. B. Smith Whaley, had its own coal-fired electrical plant that supplied electricity to Olympia and Whaley’s three other mills, as well as the Columbia Street Railway Power Company, frequently lauded as “the world’s largest cotton mill under one roof.”,
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date December 22, 2024
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  • Date of Last Update August 16, 2022
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