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Thomas F. Lloyd, a Confederate army veteran, bought land beside the new railroad depot at West End, where he and William Pritchard built a steam grist mill and cotton gin in 1883. He bought out Pritchard in 1886, added a flour mill, and then turned to the Alberta Cotton Mill, part of the mill village that became Carrboro. He is not the Regulator-era Thomas Lloyd of Hillsborough.
Source: Open Orange: 101 B St. / Lloyd Grist Mill
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Thomas F. Lloyd, a Confederate veteran, and his partner William Pritchard built a steam-powered grist mill and cotton gin in a two-story frame building just north of the railroad depot at West End in 1883. Farmers from southern Orange County brought grain and cotton there, and Lloyd bought out Pritchard's share in 1886.
Part of From West End to Carrboro: railroad, mills, and a new town, 1882–1913 · 6 events
Lloyd bought William Pritchard's share of the steam grist mill and cotton gin the two had built north of the station in 1883, and had a flour mill built on the property.
Lloyd built the Alberta Cotton Mill beside the railroad in West End in 1898 and 1899, the brick mill that later became Durham Hosiery Mill No. 4 and then Carr Mill Mall.
Part of From West End to Carrboro: railroad, mills, and a new town, 1882–1913 · 6 events
People: Julian S. Carr · Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder)
On land Thomas Lloyd deeded for churches, Baptists and Methodists shared a small Weaver Street building on alternate Sundays, and the Baptists organized as Union Chapel with seventeen charter members; the congregation became Venable Baptist in 1911 and Carrboro Baptist in 1914.
One-story frame houses with front porches were built between 1910 and 1915 as worker housing for the Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company; 25 of them form the Thomas F. Lloyd Historic District on the National Register.
Thomas F. Lloyd organized the Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company in February 1910 and built a second mill across Main Street from the Alberta mill in 1910 and 1911 to spin cotton yarn.
The Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company mill was sold to Durham Hosiery Mills, which ran it as Mill No. 7 alongside Mill No. 4, the former Alberta mill.
The original wood-frame grist mill buildings burned in 1916 and were replaced by the brick mill that survives on B Street; lightning gutted its interior in 1921.
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