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• The first cotton mill in Anderson County, South Carolina, the Pendleton Spinning Factory, later known as the Pendleton Manufacturing Company, begins operation in what is now La France, South Carolina. This plant, or rather, its vastly upgraded facility, still operates as a division of Riegel Textile Corporation known as LaFrance Industries, the oldest continually operating plant in the State of South Carolina. (Klosky, Beth Ann, "Six Miles That Changed The Course of The South", The Electric City Centennial Committee, Electric City Printing, Anderson, South Carolina, 1995, no ISBN, page 39.)
• August 14: Mark Bernard Hardin, future Professor of Chemistry at Clemson Agricultural College, is born this date in Alexandria, Virginia.

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