Henry Mill Village, NC

Henry Mill Village, North Carolina

I stumbled upon Henry Mill Village while working in Charlotte, NC.  I find history wherever I go, and I happened to stumble upon the Henry Mill Village while driving to another history spot.  Henry Mill Village was an old company town built around the textile mill about 1905.  As most company towns, an industry requires large numbers of workers and the owners of the industry builds a town to support those workers.  Henry Mill Village had stores, schools, churches and of course homes within walking distances that housed the workers.  Today, the village is abandoned, left as it was.  It is still quite remarkably intact, except for the markings of spray paint vandals.