companies to exert social control and tie down employees , keeping them working and spending with them in a vicious cycle .
The two-story brick building in the center of the village served as the company store and mill offices . It was essentially an entire downtown rolled into one building . Clothing store , grocery , bank , post office , school , church , meeting place--this was the hub . Even the bricks that were used to build it were made on-site .
The mill closed in 1970 , with several at-
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