Sibley Mill
Built in 1880 on the ruins of the Confederate Powder Works, Sibley Mill spun cotton along the Augusta Canal for over a century until its looms fell silent in 2006. Among its early-1900s workers was Maude Williams, who had taken up with a married coworker, 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. Mill hands said Maude never left her post, glimpsing her still bent over her loom at work ended decades before.
New employees knowing nothing of the story reportedly tried to speak to her, only to watch her vanish. The empty mill is restless still, its corridors walked by those listening for the woman who would not clock out.
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