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 ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

Jennie Robinson fell off a porch when she was 2, momentarily unattended by her 11-year old babysitter. Jennie’s mom, Maggie Robinson, had been at work in the Asheville Cotton Mill. “I noticed then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...