Poe, Woodside, and Mills Mill
The site of former Poe Mill recently made news when the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority recently received a grant to clear the rubble from the site. A park is envisioned in its place. The site is scheduled to be cleared this fall, so I made plans to visit the site to take photos of the site when the first good opportunity arose. A cool (for June), clear morning was my first good opportunity to visit Poe Mill and two other historic mills on the west end of Greenville: Woodside Mill and Mills Mill. These textile mills, like many other textile mills in Greenville and the rest of South Carolina, closed one by one as lower-cost foreign competition turned profits into losses. I first visited Poe Mill. Poe Mill Poe Mill was one of many textile mills that once ringed the city of Greenville. The mill was built in 1896 by F. W. Poe. The mill changed owners a few times over the years until the mill closed for good in 1977. The mill burned down in 2003. An interesting oddity I no...