PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key ...

Wuxi No.1 Cotton Mill, located in Xishan district of Wuxi, was built in 1919, and has gained country-wide fame as a cotton-textile factory. With a total of 600,000 spindles and 600 looms, Wuxi No ...

This year, U.S. textile mills are expected to process the least cotton in 139 years. Textile factory employment in 2023 fell to its weakest annual rate in records going back more than three ...

Though reports of new cotton-mill enterprises in the South continue, the statement from North Adams in yesterday's Times that the largest cotton factory in America is soon to be built in Western ...

The Old Cotton Factory is a more than 95,000-square-foot brick building that was constructed in 1881. It's listed on the ...

What was once the world’s largest cotton gin factory is being ... Some people in Prattville have complained about its name — The Mill at Prattville — saying it was a factory, not a mill.

In the 1980's, the cotton mill was converted into apartments. By June 1880, 250 people worked in the factory, two-thirds of them were women; and their average age was 18.

Slavery’s ghost haunts cotton gin factory’s transformation. ... Some people in Prattville have complained about its name — the Mill at Prattville — saying it was a factory, not a mill.

A once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments stands beside Autauga Creek in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

A man enters an old cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S ...