The Glendale Mill
The Glendale Mill was started
in a place called Bivingsville. It is now called Glendale. The
superintendent of the mill was R.F. Bagwell.
Acording to local and historian David Moore, if you were a kid by ten
you would probably work in a mill to help your family. You would have to walk to school. You only had four months of school. You wouldn’t go in the spring, summer, or
fall. You would need this time to plant or harvest crops or work in the
mill. If you were an adult you would
get paid fifty cents a day and get paid at the end of the week. The usual work
week was 66 hours. If you went shopping the money would come out of your
paycheck. It really was a tough living
time!
Post-card from
about 1907 shows the mill, company store and houses lined along Broadway
Street. The company store stands at the
beginning of the street. The mill is
now closed.
Post-card showing
view from Glendale Park. The park included a pavilion and a pond covering
a large area above the mill dam. Streetcar tracks are seen in the picture.
The streetcar came out Pine Street to Country Club Road and on to Glendale.