Textile Mill Villages: Directories and Chapels over Farm Deeds

Edited by Avery Parker for South Carolina Genealogy · Article · Last reviewed September 9, 2026 · How we work & cite

Published September 9, 2026

Upstate and piedmont mill villages create chapel rolls, school notes, and city directories that farm deed books miss. Separate rural landholding generations from mill-village workers when building twentieth-century trees.

Corridors: Migration atlas · Counties: Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Aiken (Horse Creek).