Description of a mill house
Hall describes the sawmill shack where he was born, offering a look into mill worker housing.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Full Text of the Excerpt
- BRENT GLASS:
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What do you mean by a sawmill shack?
- DOCK E. HALL:
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Well, you see, they made this building for us to live in.
They'd put them together the best they could, and never left
enough floors (they wouldn't nail them down). And
they'd tear that down when they'd get ready to
move the mill, and set it down in another location. And then
they'd put up the house and we'd move in
there.
