Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL
Summary
Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phases: c. 1898 and c. 1900. In the 1940s, it was converted to cigar production.
Survey number: HAER AL-184
Building/structure dates: ca. 1898 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after. 1940- before. 1949 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1900
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Praray, Charles A, M
Estelle Cotton Mills
Sunset Textile Mill
Rabell Manufacturing
Lewis Cigar Manufacturing Company
Location
alabama, 32.41850, -87.04210
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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