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The company was founded by Benjamin Russell in Alexander City, Alabama, in 1902. [4] The original mill produced women's undershirts and children's undergarments. The mills beginning capacity was 150 garments daily. During the 1910s, Russell Manufacturing Co. become an established business.
Alexander City Commercial Historic District, in Alexander City, Alabama, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The listing includes 32 contributing buildings and a contributing site on 8 acres (3.2 ha).
Alexander City, known to locals as "Alex City", is the largest city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States, with a population of 14,843 as of the 2020 census. It has been the largest community in Tallapoosa County since 1910.
The original "Russell Manufacturing Company", founded by Benjamin Russell in Alexander City, Alabama, in 1902, [2] became "Russell Corporation" in 1973, under the presidency of Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr., who had taken over in 1968. [1] [2] By 1990, the company owned and operated 13 sewing plants outside Alexander City and employed 15,000 workers.
The Avondale Historic District in Alexander City, Alabama, is a 750 acres (3.0 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] The district includes a textile mill building, formerly the Avondale Mills, which closed in 2006 and is now known as Parkdale Mills.
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The district is a collection of houses built by the family of Benjamin Russell. Russell and his children founded the Citizens' Bank of Alexander City in 1900, followed by the Russell Manufacturing Company in 1902. The company, along with B. B. Comer's Avondale Mills, turned Alex City into one of the textile centers of the South.