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mill towns  

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  • Mill towns are communities that developed around a mill or any milling operation requiring a substantial residential labor force. Mill company owners constructed mills as industrial enterprises, recruiting workers to operate the machinery and process raw materials into manufactured goods. [Source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History; Mill Towns]

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