Brookside Mills

Brookside Mills was a textile manufacturing company that operated in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the 1870s and 1880s, wholesale company owners began reinvesting their profits in other industries, helping to build the city's first large-scale textile factories.

[1] The father of movie director Clarence Brown was general manager of the Brookside Mills in the first decade of the 20th century.

[8] After World War II increasing foreign competition and the high costs of modernization doomed the city's textile factories.

After Cherokee Mills and Venus Hosiery closed in 1954, the city offered Brookside $350,000 in tax incentives to keep its factory open.

In October 2011, Holston Gases announced their intention to move their Knoxville gas facility to the former Brookside Mills site.