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Crompton-Shenandoah Plant, also known as The Mill at South River, is a historic textile factory complex located at Waynesboro, Virginia. The complex includes 11 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures involved in the dyeing and finishing of the gray corduroy and velveteen goods. The historic buildings and structures were built ...
Grayson County is a county located in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,333. [1] Its county seat is Independence. [2] Mount Rogers, the state's highest peak at 5,729 feet (1,746 m), is in Grayson County.
The Lynchburg Hosiery Mill No. 1 is a historic industrial property at 2734 Fort Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia. The 4-acre (1.6 ha) property includes two early 20th-century brick buildings whose construction history dates to 1900, although the oldest surviving portions now date to the 1920s.
Both sides of Dan River roughly bounded by Union St. Dam, Main St. Bridge, and Riverside and Memorial Drs., Danville, Virginia Coordinates 36°35′31″N 79°23′32″W / 36.59194°N 79.39222°W / 36.59194; -79
The cause of a fire that destroyed an old furniture factory in Stewartstown over the weekend has not been determined, and the investigation into it could take weeks, months or even longer ...
A Charlotte-based company has purchased a Mount Holly factory site that was formerly known as the Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company. Red Hill Ventures plans to expand the factory site into a ...
The Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory is a historic factory complex located at Martinsville, Virginia.The main factory was built in 1929, and is a long, three-story, brick building that was constructed for the purpose of manufacturing small pieces of furniture called "novelty" pieces in the furniture trade.
Located just outside today's Martinsville, Virginia, the plantation thrived in tobacco production and textile manufacturing, as well as producing household goods and raising livestock. At one point the enslaved blacks of Beaver Creek were tending a thousand yam plants; in one day they made 660 candles.