Manufacturing in Milton Has Become a Memory: 1906
The Decadence of Milton
"The burning of the Milton Roller Mills, a mammoth plant at Milton, removes from that town the last of the manufacturing enterprises there. Milton was incorporated in the same year with Baltimore, and for some time so far as population and the amount of business transacted was concerned, was ahead of that city. Twenty years ago it was one the best towns in this section of the state.
"Until several years ago perhaps a dozen large tobacco factories were operated there and it was a thriving tobacco market. In recent years, however, the old town has been going down hill -- the population is diminishing, the business is decreasing, and what once was a progressive and up-to-date little city, is now but a quiet, slow village, with the rippling waters of the Dan as about the only thing to attract the attention of the natives."
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, North Carolina), 18 Marcy 1906.
Photograph of Milton Roller Mill is not associated with the above newspaper item. Click image to see a larger version. Courtesy Jean Bradsher Scott.
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