Chesterfield
Mims Materials Company


Empty factory yard.

The Mims Materials Company supplied building materials to the entire region. However, with the economic slowdown nobody is building anything. The demand for construction materials has dropped to almost nothing. The Mims family has been forced to shut their doors, laying off their 40 employees. The few people who need building materials and have the money to buy them must travel to the city to get them. Some of the Mims former employees have also gone to the city to try to find work; others are unemployed with no income at all. In 1934 there are very few aid programs to help the unemployed and their families. Local charities are doing the best they can.