Bell Factory

Site of
BELL FACTORY

Mile and one-half southeast on Flint River

Earliest important textile mill in Alabama

Incorporated by Patton Donegan Company in 1832

3,000 spindles and 100 looms operated by skilled slave labor

In production as late as 1885

Name derived from “bell” used to signal workers

ERECTED BY: JUDGE DAVID CAMPBELL CHAPTER – DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN COLONISTS – 1957