In some ways, the mill’s closing couldn’t have come at a better time for the workers. A layoff of nearly 600 would typically devastate such a small community, but these are unusual days.

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 ...

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, ...

The labor of enslaved Black people helped make the factory, which dates to the 1830s, the world’s largest manufacturer of cotton gins — an innovation that boosted demand for many more enslaved ...

The Asheville Cotton Mill closed while Max was in Korea. When Max returned to the States, he attended UNC Chapel Hill, thanks to the GI Bill, and he married a Baptist minister's daughter, Jean Lane.

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 ...

Long before Bruce Springsteen bemoaned the plight of the factory worker, there were antiquated mill tunes such as “Cotton Mill Girls” lamenting, “It’s hard times, cotton mill girls, hard ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was once the world’s largest cotton gin factory is being renovated into apartments. Enslaved people were used to build the factory, which played a key role in the expansion of slavery ...