Editing Tallassee, Alabama (section)

===Mills===
"In 1900, the Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Company became a part of the Mount Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Company. This company was formed by the consolidation of the Columbia Duck Mills, Columbia, South Carolina; the Mount Vernon Company and the Woodberry Manufacturing Company, Baltimore, Maryland: and the Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Company, Tallassee, Alabama. Besides these were included two small mills in Maryland and one in Connecticut. The new company comprises a total of fourteen plants and 227,000 spindles."<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of Tallassee |last=Golden |first=Virginia Noble |date=1949 |page=59 |publisher=Tallassee Mills of Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills}}</ref>
"Child labor was common in the Tallassee Mills, as in thousands of American industrial plants, until the 1930s. "<ref name="Solomon, Olivia Pienezza 1865">Solomon, Olivia Pienezza. The Tallassee Armory, 1864–1865. 2nd ed. Tallassee: Talisi Historical Preservation Society, 2002. xlvii. Print.</ref>
"The Houses on King Street, numbered 1, 3, and 5, today occupied by Ray Carr, Houston Blount, and Frazier Elliot, were built about 1863 for the families of the confederate officers in charge of the armory and those in charge of the mill."<ref name="Solomon, Olivia Pienezza 1865"/> The Mount Vernon Mill in Tallassee was completely destroyed by a fire on May 5, 2016.

"The Tallassee National Guard Company served in World War I, and a community library was established in 1921. During WWII, the mills received awards of excellence from the U.S. Army for production of war materials."<ref name="encyclopediaofalabama.org">{{Cite web|title = Tallassee {{!}} Encyclopedia of Alabama|url = http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3311|website = Encyclopedia of Alabama|access-date = November 27, 2015}}</ref>

"The "long bell" has been rung in Tallassee at 4:30&nbsp;a.m. every day except Sunday since Barnett's time except for six months period in 1948 during which the bell tower was being repaired. Visitors who are unacquainted with Tallassee custom are sometimes startled by being awakened by the sound of the bell. They are sure there is a fire in town and that this is the alarm bell ringing. The bell ringing was really for the mills. Thomas Barnett married his cousin Miss Martha MiCou. Their sons, Thomas M., Jr. and Nicholas, lived in Tallassee, building homes on the hill above the mill. Nicholas Barnett home standing today, known as the George D. Patterson home. These families put capital in the mills known as Barnett, Gilmer and Company." 
"MeShane Bell Foundry." Tallassee: What a Site!. Tallasse, Ala.: [Tallassee Chamber of Commerce], 1988. 20. Print