Record #:

12625

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

In addition to the farming depression spreading throughout Selma, neighbors were discouraged when their single textile plant closed. Bringing hope back to Selma, Braxton Wilson, chairman of the Smithfield Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee, purchased the plant, selling it to a furniture development company. In the process of selling the old textile plant, Wilson built and sold another plant to an electronics firm. Now, Selma has two plants where before there was only one -- then none.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 26 Issue 2, June 1958, p8

Subject(s):

Selma--Economic conditions; Factories--Selma