Lancaster Mill (nick-named the "Million-Dollar Mill") was founded in 1895 by Leroy Springs in Lancaster, SC. The mill expanded with a new building twice the size between 1901 and 1903. W. B. Smith Whaley, a famous Southern cotton mill architect which designed many cotton mills, designed the new Lancaster Mill. Lancaster Mill has a clock and bell tower, the architecture of the towers is a well known style from W. B. Smith Whaley.

Lancaster Mill was heavy on child labor, stories and informaton Lancaster's child labor in a dirty, dark and dangerous mill has been document here:

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Lancaster was later part of the Springs Industries, Inc. (or Springs Mills, Inc.) which owned many large mills near the NC border in SC. The local community and residents of Lancaster wanted Lancaster Mill on the National Register, but instead the property owner demolished the mill for salvagable materials, leaving a field in its place.

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