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2. Cocheco Mills - Wikipedia

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   "Work in the mills was dirty, monotonous and loud," writes author Mark A. Leno, Jr. [6] Then in 1909 the plant was purchased by Pacific Mill Works of Lawrence, Massachusetts, which in 1911 petitioned the US Board on Geographic Names to drop the river's historic spelling Cochecho and substitute the mill's spelling Cocheco. The manufacture of ...

3. Cotton production in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The United States exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. [1] Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and production occurs in the Southern United States and the Western United States, dominated by Texas, California, Arizona, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

4. Barkcloth - Wikipedia

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   Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Barkcloth comes primarily from trees of the family Moraceae, including Broussonetia papyrifera, Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus tamaran, and Ficus natalensis. It is made by beating sodden strips of the fibrous inner bark of these trees into ...

5. Richland Cotton Mill - Wikipedia

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   Richland Cotton Mill, also known as Pacific Mills, Lowenstein Mill, and Whaley's Mill, is a historic cotton mill building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1894, and is a four-story, rectangular brick mill building. It features a seven-story stair tower, with a circular vent flanked by two arched vents.

6. History of the Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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   November 1, 1961: The Texas and New Orleans Railroad—which by this time encompassed all of the SP's Texas and Louisiana holdings except for the lines of the Southern Pacific Terminal Company and Cotton Belt—is merged with the Southern Pacific. [24] The SPTC, having been previously leased to the T&NO, is leased to the SP the same day.

7. Tontine Group - Wikipedia

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   Tontine is now owned by John Cotton Group. Until 2007 the company's manufacturing base was at East Brunswick, Victoria [ 1 ] (it is now at Campbellfield in Victoria). Tontine Fibres is a division of United Bonded Fabrics a separate company manufacturing polyester insulation , air filtration, carpet underlays, geotextiles and a range of mattress ...

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9. List of plantations in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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   At the time of the cotton gin's invention, the sub tropical soils in the Eastern United States were becoming depleted, and the fertilizer deposits of guano deposits of South America and the Pacific Islands along with the nitrate deposits in the Chilean deserts were not yet being exploited, meaning that there were fertilizer shortages, leading ...