1887: Springs is founded in 1887 as Fort Mill Manufacturing
Company in Fort Mill, SC, by Samuel Elliott White.
1895: Leroy Springs establishes Lancaster Cotton
Mills, in Lancaster, SC. His company assumes control
of the
Fort Mill Manufacturing Company in 1914.
1919: Springs operates five textile mills in South
Carolina as separate companies - Fort Mill Plant,
White Plant,
Lancaster Plant, Kershaw Plant and Eureka Plant.
