I am told by a man who for many decades has been a superintendent that he was in a cotton-mill in 1826, and worked from fourteen to fifteen hours per day up to 1833 or 1834. Then the hours began ...

Cotton mill in northwest Georgia is America's No. 1 producer of denim; ... Georgia, during the Civil War and decided not to burn the factory down. The reason remains town lore.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

By the time tMoses and Caesar Cone bought Graham’s cotton mill in 1892 and renamed it Asheville Cotton Mill, there was a network of factory cottages and streets that locals came to call ...

In 1903, Greenville was becoming a mill town. In the previous seven years, eight cotton mills were built around the city. Leaders in the newly formed Board of Trade worried that the economy was ...

A Charlotte company wants to redevelop the 130-year-old Linden Cotton Mill in downtown Davidson as offices, shops and maybe a brewery or restaurant. But the factory also once made asbestos ...

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 ...

Eventually, Enoch’s father got a job with the Power and Light Co. in Asheville, and Enoch, age 11, went to work at the Asheville Cotton Mill, putting in long days. Factory boys ...

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