Sibley Mill
Rising in 1880 on the ruins of the Confederate Powder Works, Sibley Mill spun cotton along the Augusta Canal for more than a century, its weaving rooms thundering with looms until the mill finally fell silent in 2006. Among the workers in the early 1900s was Maude Williams, who had taken up with a married coworker named Arthur Glover; when she ended the affair, a jealous Glover stormed into the weaving room on October 20, 1906, and shot her dead among the machines. In the years that followed, mill hands said Maude never left her post, and they would glimpse her still bent over her loom, focused on work that had ended decades before. New employees who knew nothing of the story have reportedly tried to speak to her, only to watch her vanish before their eyes. The empty mill is said to be restless still, its corridors visited by those who come listening for the woman who would not clock out.
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