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 ...

Belper North and East Mill form part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site [Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site] A town in Derbyshire is planning a year of special events to mark the ...

In the 1870's, a large cotton mill was built in Janesville on the west side of the Rock River. In the 1980's, the cotton mill was converted into apartments. By June 1880, 250 people worked in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...