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Banning Mill - Finding Aid

Scope and Content

The Banning Mill Collection is composed of research done by graduate students working with funds from Patricia Brown of Banning Mill Enterprises. Primary and secondary sources have been compiled which include oral history interviews, thesis projects and papers, artifacts, maps, photographs, census records, and newspaper articles.

Box and Folder Listing

Document Box #1 started 1999 by Arden Williams in conjunction with the Banning GRA and her thesis project. Status: Ongoing.:


Document Box #2 started 1999 by Arden Willliams in conjunction with the Banning GRA and her thesis project. Status: Ongoing.:


Document Box #3 Various Newspaper Articles collected by Arden Williams in 1999-2001. Status: Ongoing.:


Document Box #4 Research by Carey Tilley for his thesis project. Status: Collection Complete May 2002.:


Document Box #5 Research and Photographs by Arden William. Status: Collection Complete Aug. 2002.:


Document Box #6 Research and Photographs by Mark Barron. Status: Collection Complete Aug. 2002:


Artifact Box #7 Surface artifacts #1-20 collected by Carey Tilley, Summer 2000 Artifact Box #8 Surface artifacts #21-35 collected by Carey Tilley, Summer 2000:

Database Search Terms/Keywords
Banning mill, mill villages, mill village life, textile mills, architectural survey, cultural resource survey, material culture, folklore, oral history, and Whitesburg.

Separate Materials
Contemporary photographs of Banning Mill are located under “B” it the Photo Collection Boxes. Negatives can be found in the black file folders located in the Center. Photographs donated by an interviewee can be located in the file folder of that interviewee in the Interview boxes, A-Z. Bound copies of thesis research done on Banning can be found in the Center or the Graduate School. “The Making of Textiles and Banning Mill” research on the process of making cloth and profiles of additional Georgia mills can be found in a grey binder in the Center. Disks and CDs with hard copies of Banning research and photographs can also be found in the Center. For more information on mills in Carroll County, see material relating to Sewell, Hubbard, and Mandeville by searching the database. Research done on New Manchester, a mill built around the same as Banning, can be found in the “History of New Manchester at Sweetwater” box.

Interview List
Interview tapes are listed in alphabetical order in the Center. Interview files with indexed or transcribed interviews, biographical information, and additional notes can be found in the individual file boxes labeled A-Z.

  1. Bobby Argo interviewed by Arden Williams on 10/20/99
  2. Glen Argo interviewed by Violet Miles on 7/14/99
  3. Norman Broom interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 8/31/99
  4. Hazel Brown interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/17/00
  5. Paul and Minnie Brown, email correspondence with Teresa Beyer from 11/2003-
  6. Minnie Brown interviewed by Teresa Beyer on 3/31/04
  7. Betty Jo Cauley interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/2/00
  8. Billie W. Driver interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/4/00
  9. Pearl Driver interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/5/00
  10. Mary S. Duke interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 11/20/01
  11. Charles Gamble interviewed by Teresa Beyer on
  12. Barbara Gentry interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/3/00
  13. Joe Head interviewed by Teresa Beyer on 4/5/04
  14. Paul Henry interviewed twice by Stephanie Sims on 10/4/00 and 10/5/00
  15. Bud Hines interviewed by Brett Whaley 3/18/02
  16. John and Mary Holder interviewed by Arden Williams and Ann McCleary on 12/1/99
  17. Wilson Holder interviewed by Stephanie Sims 10/11/00
  18. Hershal and Talmadge Horsley interviewed by Teresa Beyer on 3/14/04
  19. Mary Frances Long interviewed by Stephanie Sims 10/15/01
  20. Thelma Pate interviewed by Teresa Beyer, Kathy Furr, and Bud Hines 10/31/02
  21. Ralph Phillips interviewed by Arden Williams and Ann McCleary 5/4/99
  22. E. Richardson interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 2/6/01
  23. C. D. Smith interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/6/00
  24. Coley Smith interviewed by Stephanie Daniel on 11/19/98, by Lucy Bussard on 5/11/99, and Stephanie Sims on 4/6/01
  25. Floyd Smith interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/6/00
  26. Ruth Argo Smith interviewed by Violet Miles on 7/14/99 and by Teresa Beyer on 11/12/02
  27. Alton Stitcher interviewed by Teresa Beyer on 11/8/02
  28. Tom S. Thomson interviewed by Violet Miles on 7/27/99 and by Arden Williams and Violet Miles on 9/9/99
  29. Charles Everett Tolbert interviewed by Violet Miles three times on 7/27/99, 8/99, and 10/12/99 (with Arden Williams)
  30. T. W. Tolbert interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 10/30/00
  31. Cecil Wilson interviewed by Stephanie Sims on 7/31/99
  32. David Woodward interviewed by Teresa Beyer and Kathy Furr on 10/31/02

Creator of Finding Aid
Teresa Beyer, Graduate Assistant, Center for Public History, 4/2004