Tag: Merchant Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill (Petersburg VA)

Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book Of The War. Vol. 2, No. 82. View on the Appomattox River, Near Campbell’s Bridge, Petersburg, Va. May, 1865. …On the right hand side of the view here taken is introduced a portion of one of the “Merchant Manufacturing Company’s Cotton Mills,” established in the early part of the year 1832, and employing, we are told, one hundred and fifty to two hundred operatives.