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 ...

Historic Savage Mill, a restored two-centuries-old cotton mill, draws another notch in its evolutionary timeline as it welcomes its newest eatery, The Factory Grill and Bakery Too. Owners Karen and ...

Last Friday at noon, Floyd and Mary Rhodes walked out of the Elizabeth City Cotton Mill for the last time after more than 60 years as employees. They crossed the five lanes of U.S. 17 over to the 800 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part article. “Did you ever hear of curing a pig of a tin’ by giving him more swill?” Enoch Ball liked to ask while cutting hair at his West Asheville ...

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.1 ...

The statement is frequently made that “the Americans have everywhere been driven out of the factory.” It is true that they have almost universally quitted the lower grades of work in cotton-mills, but ...

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 ...