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Goods manufactured in same time. 



1,188 pieces 4-4 sheeting, weighing 13,470 lbs., in 

 38,448 yards, and cost for labor 2 634-1000 mills per 

 yard, and for stock 2 994-1000 mills per yard, or 5 628- 

 1000 mills per yard, total. 



2,650 pieces 7-8 shirting, 26,369 lbs., 87,689 yards, and 

 cost 2 261-1000 mills per yard for labor, and 2 571-1000 

 mills per yard for stock, or, total, 4 832-1000 mills. 



The building is warmed by steam and lighted with oil. 



Labor is all paid monthly in cash. There are eighty- 

 three dwellings, a hotel, a saw mill, and grist mill, and all 

 needed out-buildings, and schoolhouse, and two of the 

 neatest and prettiest little gothic churches ever seen em- 

 bowered in the piney-wood forest; and a tract of nine 

 thousand acres of land, including another mill site, all of 

 which has cost the company $300,000. 



Most of the dwellings are two-story, with portico and 

 handsome front yards and gardens, and large enough to 

 give good room for a large family. For small families 

 there are numbers of snug little gothic cottages, all 

 painted like blue granite, and hence the name of Granite- 

 ville. The whole conception and finish appears to be due 

 to the active mind of the President of the company, Wm. 

 Gregg, Esq.,^ whom I regret I did not see. 



As the place is only a short mile from the Charleston 



* William Gregg, born in Monongalia County, Virginia (now 

 West Virginia), February, 1800. Removed in 1810 to Georgia, 

 with his uncle, Jacob Gregg, who erected one of the first cotton 

 factories of the South on Little River between Monticello and Madi- 

 son. Was sent to Kentucky to learn the trade of watchmaker, and 

 remained till 1821. In 1824 established himself in business in 

 Columbia, South Carolina, and became eminently successful. Re- 

 tired in ill health in 1834, but in 1837 purchased a large interest in 

 Vaucluse Manufacturing Company in Edgefield. In 1838, resumed 

 his business connection with Hayden, Gregg and Company. Trav- 

 eled in the North and abroad. Wrote essays on domestic industry. 

 One of the best-known cotton men in the upcountry. Snowden, 

 Yates, and Cutler, H. G. (eds.). History of Soiith Carolina, 2:637- 

 38, 1167 (Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920); 

 De Bow's Review, 10:348-52 (March, 1851). 



