The Olympic Mills

When the Olympic Mills opened in 1899, it was considered to be the largest and most modern cotton mill in the United States. People came from all over to get jobs there. Whole families, even with young children, found employment at this technically advanced mill. Trains would bring huge bales of cotton to be made into thread and then into cloth. There were 1,200 looms moving very quickly and many children worked in the dangerous spinning area. Now these buildings have been turned into a very nice apartment complex. But there are tales . . . People who live there have said that objects move when they are not there, sometimes tiny footsteps are heard, and small handprints sometime appear on frosty windows in the winter. The Nastee sisters love haunted house stories!