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Olympia Mill Village Museum In the first half of the 19th century, Columbia was growing. Government and commerce were driving industrialization, and the textile industry was rapidly expanding. Amid this “New South” economy, plans were drawn up for an audacious mill and village along the banks of the Congaree River just outside the city limits.
"P" is for Pacific Mills. Pacific Mills began in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1915, in order to expand its operations it purchased four mills on the outskirts of Columbia.
A new art installation at The Mills apartment complex brings attention to the hardships textile workers faced in cotton mills in the early 1900s.