After church today, the Lanhams drove Uncle John and Mr. and Mrs. Lanham senior out to Shannon to see the new Brighton Mills, for which construction had begun the year before. The plant was the first southern outpost of the New Jersey-based textile company and was called Southern Brighton Mills. The company manufactured cotton tire cord (the lining of p…
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