| 1768/00/00 |
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Richard Pearis, following Cherokee settlers, establishes a trading post and grist mill. |
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| 1874/02/00 |
Oscar H Sampson |
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Oscar H Sampson and George F Hall and Co negotiate a 10-year lease with Alexander McBee for waterpower and a brick mill located along the Reedy River below the falls in what is now the center of Greenville. |
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| 1874/06/00 |
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Looms and fixtures soon arrive and the mill is completed for wool and cotton broker business called Sampson, Hall and Company. |
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| 1875/02/00 |
Oscar H Sampson |
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Unable to reach an agreement to renew his lease at Camperdown, Sampson builds a small wooden mill on another side of Greenville and moves all the machinery to his new mill called, Sampson Mill. |
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| 1876/00/00 |
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A larger mill, Camperdown No 2, is built on the east side of the river. |
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| 1880/00/00 |
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By 1880, Camperdown is the second-largest mill in South Carolina next to Graniteville and employed 260 workers with a payroll of $4,200. |
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| 1884/00/00 |
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Camperdown Mills become insolvent. |
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| 1885/08/01 |
Henry Pinckney Hammett |
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Hammett buys the entire property of the Camperdown Mills Company, including the land lease, for the sum of $70,000, and creates the Camperdown Cotton Mills. |
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| 1894/04/00 |
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Camperdown Cotton Mills become insolvent and passes into the hands of the South Carolina State Court by O H Sampson and Co. |
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| 1904/00/00 |
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Charles E Graham re-opens Camperdown No 2, specializing in the production of gingham and plaid fabrics. |
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| 1907/00/00 |
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Graham had expands the mill and increases the mill village's residential population to 1,200. |
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| 1913/00/00 |
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The Camperdown Mill buys more land and builds new houses on Hunt, Webster, Lois and Boyce streets, in addition to the homes already on Falls and Cleveland streets, as well as Choice Street (renamed Camperdown Way after the mill's demolition). |
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| 1922/00/00 |
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Charles E Graham dies. |
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| 1930/00/00 |
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Charles E Graham's son, Alan, sells Camperdown Mill in bankruptcy. |
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| 1943/00/00 |
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Camperdown No 1 or the Vardry Mill, under McBee ownership, mostly used as storage, burns down. |
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| 1959/00/00 |
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Camperdown Mill is demolished to create a way for an extension of Church Street to Augusta Road, a project that plows through the mill village. |
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