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Thomasville Chair, started in 1904, soon became the town's leading furniture manufacturer. By 1916, 2,000 chairs a day were being made citywide. By 1909 Jewel Cotton Mills and Amazon Cotton Mills gave Thomasville another industry, textiles. Sellers Hosiery Mills of Burlington opened in 1913, and Thomasville Hosiery in 1916. [5]
The Mitchell House Museum was founded in 1982 as a project of the Mills Home Alumni Association. The museum is located in Thomasville, NC on the Mills Home Campus, the original campus of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina. It occupies the oldest building on the Mills Home Campus.
High Rock Lake. High Rock Lake is the northernmost of the Uwharrie Lakes and the second largest lake in North Carolina behind Lake Norman. Its water surface covers 15,180 acres (61.4 km 2) and there are 365 miles (587 km) of shoreline. It begins at the confluence of the Yadkin River and the South Yadkin River.
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The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.76. In the county, the population was spread out, with 21.20% under the age of 18, 7.00% from 18 to 24, 25.70% from 25 to 44, 29.20% from 45 to 64, and 16.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 96.70 males.
In 1910, textile engineer and Thomasville native Stuart Warren Cramer became owner and president of the mill and property. He turned the mill and the surrounding community into a model mill village. [8] In 1921, Cramer changed the name of the town to Cramerton, and the name of the mill to Cramerton Mills in 1922. [9]
NC 109 – Thomasville, Winston-Salem: Interchange: 205.5: 330.7: US 29 north / National Highway south – Thomasville NC 68 begins: East end of US 29 overlap; west end of NC 68 overlap; interchange with US 29; southern terminus of NC 68; US 29 north is former I-85 BL north / US 70 east: Guilford: High Point: I-74 – Winston-Salem, Asheboro
T. Austin and Ernestine L. Finch House is a historic house located in Thomasville, North Carolina. Built-in 1921, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]