American Spinning Mill, capitalized at $125,000, began operations in September 1895 after Oscar H. Sampson of Sampson, Hall, and Company of Boston, Mass, had purchased in late 1891 from the estate of Henry P. Hammett more than a hundred acres of farmland extending from Buncombe Road east past Langston Creek and the Southern Railway. Its first building was a two story wood frame structure with large windows later called "The Little Mill," and its first machinery came from the Old Camperdown Mill, which had closed because of legal problems. The first mill was called Sampson Mill, but in 1896 the name changed to American Spinning Company. In 1900 a four and five story brick building was constructed, and it began operations in 1901 as a weaving mill. The number three mill extension began operations in 1903. The first officers were Oscar H. Sampson, James Orr, and Jack Cagle. James H. Morgan, a successful local Greenville merchant, took over full operation of the mill in 1898 with T. A. Sizemore as superintendent. The mill expanded through a fourth extension and several warehouses, and its village included 225 houses built in three different stages. Mill ownership also built an elementary school, Bethel Methodist and Morgan Memorial Baptist churches, a Community Building, and a swimming pool. The mill was equipped with 1,056 looms, 52,416 spinning spindles, and 5,000 twister spindles, and at its height more than 700 employees worked there. Cone Mill Corporation took over ownership in 1953, and the mill remained in operation until it closed at midnight on June 27, 1990.