When the Mill Closes Down, Part 5 - Simpsonville - Episode 5

Part 5 - Simpsonville, South Carolina

Carolina Stories: When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina's rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings and profiles mill town revitalization efforts. Featured are Avondale, Ware Shoals, Newberry, Honea Path and Pacolet mills.

Standards

• 5.2.CX Contextualize the post-war economic climate on the cultural landscape throughout the United States and South Carolina.
• This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into the devastation of the Great Depression and the impact of the New Deal on a largely agricultural South Carolina. This indicator was also designed to foster inquiry into the economic diversification between World War II and the present, to include tourism, global trade and industry, and the maintenance of military bases.