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<p>[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 4314752, member: 1886"]Manetta Mills, Lando, S.C, Good for 10, 24mm, 1.5grams, M/A, aluminum, Chibbaro LNDO-10</p><p>Token catalog #330605</p><p><br /></p><p>Manetta Mills was an existing cotton mill (textile factory) known as the Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company when it was purchased by Benjamin D. Heath in 1896. He renamed it Manetta Mills after combining the name of his first wife Mary, who died, with his current wife Nettie.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the matter of wives, their is a letter in Tony Chibbaro's book from a Manetta employee who, speaking of the second general store that was a modern brick building built in 1920, "...it sold items ranging from coffins to ladies' fineries... " The letter talked of other things such as grinding their own corn meal and flour and making their own ice as well as the tokens which he said were used between the 1900's to the 1950's. I just thought it too funny to read about coffins and ladies' fineries. You know, you get to work in a cotton mill, keep you wife in fineries, and when it's time for the dirt nap, your box is right there, ready to go. "I love it when a plan comes together." Col. Hannibal Smith A-team.</p><p><br /></p><p>Source Tony Chibbaro Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1097219[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 4314752, member: 1886"]Manetta Mills, Lando, S.C, Good for 10, 24mm, 1.5grams, M/A, aluminum, Chibbaro LNDO-10 Token catalog #330605 Manetta Mills was an existing cotton mill (textile factory) known as the Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company when it was purchased by Benjamin D. Heath in 1896. He renamed it Manetta Mills after combining the name of his first wife Mary, who died, with his current wife Nettie. On the matter of wives, their is a letter in Tony Chibbaro's book from a Manetta employee who, speaking of the second general store that was a modern brick building built in 1920, "...it sold items ranging from coffins to ladies' fineries... " The letter talked of other things such as grinding their own corn meal and flour and making their own ice as well as the tokens which he said were used between the 1900's to the 1950's. I just thought it too funny to read about coffins and ladies' fineries. You know, you get to work in a cotton mill, keep you wife in fineries, and when it's time for the dirt nap, your box is right there, ready to go. "I love it when a plan comes together." Col. Hannibal Smith A-team. Source Tony Chibbaro Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens [ATTACH=full]1097218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1097219[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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