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The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
Concerning the entire building, the fire department assisted in rescuing about 200 people. [9] The fire killed five people, [17] [7] [18] all of whom had been on the sixth floor. [13] Three of these individuals had had resuscitation attempts performed on them, [15] including one person who succumbed to their injuries at a hospital on July 3.
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Among the hundreds of shoppers crowding into Woolworth’s downtown store on Saturday, Feb. 27, 1937, few would have guessed the young women and teenage girls behind the counter were about to ...
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is a formerly operating mill complex located in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.Construction of the complex began in 1881 on the south side of the Georgia Railroad line, east of Downtown Atlanta, on the site of the Atlanta Rolling Mill.
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View of area destroyed by the fire. Since more than 85% of the destroyed buildings had wood shingles, the city quickly passed an ordinance banning them for new construction. By 1931 all older buildings had replaced the wood shingles. In the history of the city, only Sherman's fire of 1864 did more extensive damage.
The fire was reignited when water from a malfunctioning sprinkler head "came in contact with a water reactive chemical and produced a plume," county officials explained on their website.