Chiquola Mill in South Carolina helped create 8

HONEA PATH, S.C. — It began simply enough.

A photograph bought at an auction.

One of those long, black and white panoramic photographs. Rows of cotton mill workers, men in coveralls and women in dresses with collars and cuffs.

As you scan the faces, some look happy, some stoic, some friends sitting together, arms draped around necks and hands on shoulders.

A moment frozen in time. August written in pencil on the back and on the front in white letters, "employees of the cotton mill 1934," a credit by Oliver Photo.

Photos like this, just like textile mills, dotted the east coast and Southern landscapes.

So, what makes this mill, the Chiquola Cotton Mill , different?

A few weeks after this photo was taken, it was the site of one of the bloodiest and deadliest textile mill strikes in