Roy Price was a card fixer at the Asheville Cotton Mill during the Depression. He maintained the machines that combed the cotton sent from the picker room. When he arrived home, he brushed lint from ...
Wilma Rider started at the bottom when she went to work for Mount Vernon Mills. She quit high school at 17 to take a job running looms at the cotton mill in tiny Alto, north of Gainesville. That first ...
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 role in ...
The mill was the first textile factory whose machinery was entirely operated by electricity. The cotton mill's main building was a large, rectangular, red brick three-floor structure. In the main ...
1 of 3 — Architects' drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates) 2 of 3 — Architects' drawings show the concept for a ...
THE earliest employees of the New England cotton mills were secured almost exclusively from the farm and village population immediately adjacent to the early manufacturing centres. These employees ...
A town in Derbyshire is planning a year of special events to mark the 250th anniversary of the first water-powered cotton mill. In 1776, Jedediah Strutt and his family created one of the world's ...
Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...
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 role in ...
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