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Gainesville Mill: Cotton Mill purchased in 1901, started in South Carolina
Housing was sold to village residents, private land owners in 1939
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Though the mill is gone, the Gainesville Mill building is still in use today, with the main business being Adams Transfer and Storage. - photo by Tom Reed
In 1925, Cecil Boswell, 8 years old at the time, moved from Jackson County to a mill village just south of Gainesville. His father was looking for work because, as Boswell remembers, the crops in Hall’s neighboring county, were “all burned up in the field.” That year, his father landed a job at the Gainesville Cotton Mill and Boswell spread roots in the area that have only been uprooted for a five-year stint in the military.