family roots in Clifton, SC

Since my dad's family grew up in the Clifton area of South Carolina 

(Coopertown to be exact)

I have always found the history of that area interesting.

  

I found some old newspaper articles about the mills of that

area (from the local Spartanburg Herald Journal.) 

I am posting photos below that you can save on your computer as jpg 

and then enlarge to read, etc.   

I did not realize that there were stocks at one time for the mill -

Clifton Manufacturing Company. 

My dad's family originated in North Carolina, 

but many of my grandfather C C Franklin's

family moved to the Spartanburg, SC area to work 

in the textile mills (cotton mills) in the early 1900's.