Maverick Mills Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6775

Scope and Contents

The Maverick Mills Records includes ledgers and oversized bound materials. Organizational, Administrative, and Executive records contain directors reports and stockholders records, and machinery contracts. The collection includes financial, purchasing, and sales records in the form of trail balances, ledgers, journals and cash books, cotton inventories, White Horse cloth invoices, White Horse waste sales, and waste and cloth bale contents. In addition, it includes a few labor-related materials such as payroll records, work regulations, insurance records and union agreements.

Dates

1909-1971

Creator

Maverick Mills (creator, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The Maverick Mills was incorporated in 1909 by Eugene N. Foss. A producer of fine cotton cloth, the original mill in East Boston, MA ran 73,000 spindles. By 1915 the mill's 1,157 looms were being used to produce fine combed grey goods.

In 1950-1951, a new plant was built. Located in Greenville, SC, the White Horse Mill ran 17,000 spindles and 200 looms. The East Boston mill ceased production in Massachusetts in 1956 and the property was sold in 1957. Although the physical plant moved to South Carolina, the Foss family continued to run the White Horse Division of Maverick Mills, Inc. from their Boston address.

In 1958, a one to two million dollar expansion in South Carolina added 12,000 spindles and 300 looms bringing the mill's total to 54,476 spindles and 1,032 looms. A new mill (Plant/Mill #2) was completed in 1961-62 which provided an additional 250,000 square feet of floor space with an estimated addition of 700 50-inch looms and approximately 10,000 spindles.

J. P. Stevens and Co., Inc. acquired the White Horse Mill(s) in 1963 from Noble Foss for the purchase price of $6,000,000. In a July 2, 1963 news release (see MS 1988.192, Box 9, folder 16), J.P. Stevens and Co., Inc. stated that: "the White Horse Mill, producer of fine combed lawn fabrics, would be operated as a part of the Cotton Division. This represents a further diversification by Stevens in cottons, adding lawns to its present line."

-taken from The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum: A Guide to the Manuscript Collections

Extent

17.7 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Collection of directors reports and stockholders records, machinery contracts, financial, purchasing, sales records, and labor-related materials.

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection.

Processing Information

The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession number for this collection was 0022.279. When the materials had been processed by the ATHM, we kept the records in the original order but sometimes the box and folders numbers will change. The old numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 0022.279.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.