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A photographic exhibit of the Highland Park Mill community from the collections of Mrs. Lois Moore Yandle. Click on the image titles below to see them at full size or view them as a slide show in the Image Gallery below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit & Section: 
Highland Park Mill: People on the Hill [17]
Main Image: 
This 1916 photograph of the workers in the Carding Room at Highland Park reveals the diversity of the workers. Men, women, and children worked side by side.
Highland Mill Early 1900's
Ruth Hazelwood as a young girl. She served as the youth advisor at Spencer Memorial Methodist church.
Jimmy Osborne lived in North Charlotte when this photograph was taken. (date unknown)
Carson Moore was the uncle of Lois Moore Yandle. He left the mill in 1916 and joined the Charlotte Police Department.
The war did little to slow down romance in the mill community. Willie Suddreth House and John House in this hand tinted photograph. c. 1943
Lena Hughs Paxton lived in the North Davidson area. This photograph was taken around 1910.
Pearl Frye Moore
Two Unknown Girls
Joe Carson
Luther Brackett began working at the Highland Mill Park #3 in 1934. He started as a trainee, but eventually became the General Manager of the mill until it closed in 1969. Brackett accepted, on behalf of the Highland Park baseball team, a trophy for placing second in the 1941 National Amateur World Series in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The teachers at Tech High stand in front of the school for this 1926 photograph. First Row: Mabel Underwood, Mary Sossoman, Lottie Ona Barkley, Aubin Wert, Thelma Ashworth. Second Row: Helen McManus, Carolyn May, Ruth Brawley, Ruth Kohn, Helen Dodds. Third Row: O.P. Littell, Nattye McNinch, Lula Faye Clegg, Daphne Ransom, S. L. Gunderson. Fourth Row: Stella Kittles, Maie Myers, N.F. Collage and Forest T. Selby.
Visitors at the North Charlotte Inn in the 1920s. It later became Shue's Boarding House.
Lois Moore Yandle as a baby in her mother's arms. From left-to-right: Essie Christenbury, Madeline Moore (Lois's mother), Lois, Mae Suddreth and Bessie Christenbury. Notice the vegetable garden in the background. Most workers in the mill grew vegetables and canned these goods for the winter.
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Exhibit Date: 
1900 to 1920
Exhibit Summary: 
A photographic exhibit of the Highland Park Mill community from the collections of Mrs. Lois Moore Yandle.
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