Unity Cotton Mills
Built in 1900, and located in land lot 141 of the 6th
district, on Leman Street in LaGrange. This plant was chartered on May 8,
1900, and the following were the incorporators: J. M. Barnard, C. V. Truitt,
J. E. Dunson, F. E. Callaway, S. H. Truitt, S. P. Smith, J. H. Edmondson, G.
E. Dallis, W. V. Gray, G. B. Heard, E. G. Hood, T. J. Thornton, F. J. Pike,
J. L. Bradfield, H. D. Glanton, T. S. Bradfield, C. D. Hudson, A. H.
Nunnally, P. H. Hutchinson, N. R. Hutchinson, F. M. Ridley, J. R. Broome, H.
R. Slack. There have been some additions to this plant at intervals, but the
greatest expansion was in the form of an entire new plant under the name of
Unity Spinning Mills, located in land lot 147 of the 6th district. This was
built in 1909 by the parent plant of which it formed an auxiliary. The
management of this plant was in the hands of C. V. Truitt up to the time of
his retirement, after which it devolved upon Cason J. Callaway. The
superintendents of this plant are as follows: George W. Murphy, Sr., William
W. Arnold, William H. Turner, Jr., James Newsome, Ed Estes, W. Preston
Dunson.
The products of Unity Cotton Mills were originally in the form of the cotton
ducks, but later became more diversified in character. The plant may be
considered as the parent plant of the group of cotton mills later designated
as the Callaway Mills.
