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              <text>The Huntsville Land Company</text>
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              <text>This blueprint of the Dallas Mill Village was created by Oscar Goldsmith, owner of the Huntsville Land Company and Treasurer of Dallas Manufacturing Company, to show the Dallas board of directors the expansion of the mill village. By February 20, 1893, the Huntsville Land Company had built 50 double houses for the employees of Dallas Mill and was contracted to build 25 more that year.  The blocks highlighted in red are were homes were already built in February 1893 and the blocks in black are the planned construction sites.</text>
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              <text>Dallas Manufacturing Collection, Minute Book 1890-1907. University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama</text>
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              <text>This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.</text>
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