1930s Cotton Compress Chimney -- Sweetwater TX - Lonely Chimneys on Waymarking.com

A lonely chimney and an obsolete cotton compress are all that remains of a giant former cotton mill operation located in a triangle of land bordered by three sets of railroad tracks at Sam Houston Street and W Ave A in Sweetwater TX.

The three railroads that served this mill were as follows:

To the north: The Texas and Pacific Railway
To the west: The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
To the SW-NE: The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway

From ebay, an antique postcard of the mill as it once was: (visit link)

The compress was built in 1929, which helps (somewhat) date this facility.

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Date Logged Log User Rating   05/25/2013 Benchmark Blasterz visited it