Hanes Rubber Company, Large Mill Village Planned for Winston-Salem, May, 1919

From the Polk County News and the Tryon Bee, May 16, 1919. One of the headlines says the lots will have a frontage of 30 feet but the article says it will be 80 feet. I don’t know which is correct.

The Latest Word In Mill Villages. . . Winston-Salem Concern Plans Building of City on Novel Lines. . . Immediate Outlay $300,000. . . There Will be 300 Bungalows Built on Lots with Frontage of 30 Feet by 125 to 175 Feet in Depth

Winston-Salem—The latest word in mill villages, which will be second to none in the country, is to be developed by the Hanes Rubber Company, around the site of its tire plant just north of Winston-Salem. The project, which is being planned and directed by Lockwood, Greene & Co. of Boston, contemplates an immediate expenditure of about $300,000 this spring.

The plans show a beautifully laid off city, not in the customary square block style, but with the wide sweeping curved streets and parks and public squares. All traffic arteries lead to two main centers, the big plant itself, which is to be easy of access from every section of the village, and the village center in the residential section. There are to be erected 300 modern five-room bungalows, each to be fitted with all modern conveniences, including water, sewer, electric lights and bath, and each to be located on lots with frontage of 80 feet and ranging from 125 to 175 feet in depth, giving the occupants ample space for vegetable and flower gardens and playgrounds for the children.

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From Rubber World, July 1919, online at https://books.google.com/books?id=TqBEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA577&lpg=PA577&dq=Hanes+Rubber+company+mill+village+in+Winston-Salem+nc&source=bl&ots=LHU-_-TKDp&sig=ACfU3U0viOVBiTMN216wWeWDD4xUUdFlkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZp7STuaXiAhWDdN8KHZATBMMQ6AEwA3oECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Hanes%20Rubber%20company%20mill%20village%20in%20Winston-Salem%20nc&f=false. The page includes a photo of a row of the cottages.

A Mill Village for the Hanes Rubber Co.

The Hanes Rubber Co., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is developing a 135-acre tract adjoining its factory as a modern mill village of the most approved type.

A tract of some 135 acres of attractive topography that will afford opportunity for expansion of both plant and village has been selected and a firm of well-known village planners are in charge of the work, thus assuring good architecture and pleasing landscape features.

The plans include several miles of graded, grass-bordered streets with concrete sidewalks. All traffic arteries lead to two important centers—the plant and the community center, where will be located a building for entertainments, motion-pictures, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, also modern stores of various sorts.

A 12-acre tract is reserved for expansion of the plant. Seven storage warehouses will be erected for raw materials, and two textile mills are projected nearby, to supply fabric needs, the first of these to be 10,000-spindle equipment for the production of tire-building fabrics.