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The Story:
In The Beginning
Colonel Francis Henry Fries
Roanoke & Southern Railway
The Mayo Mills
The Avalon Mills
The Village Of Avalon
Working In The Mill
Child Labor
Building A Community
Avalon Moravian Church
Avalon School
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Tragedy Strikes
The Aftermath
People Of Avalon:
1910 Census
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Avalon 1900-1911
Avalon 2000-2001
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Nestled between the tracks of the Norfolk & Southern Railway and the Mayo River, two miles from Mayodan, North Carolina, there once thrived a cotton mill village known as Avalon.