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A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, [1] ... but after I took the photo, the ...
Cannelton Cotton Mill, also known as Indiana Cotton Mill, is a National Historic Landmark of the United States located in Cannelton, Indiana, United States.Built in 1849 as an effort to expand textile milling out of New England, it was the largest industrial building west of the Allegheny Mountains, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft, an early industrial architect.
Pages in category "Cotton mills in the United States" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Two mills; became part of New England Cotton Yarn Company in 1899; later part of Fairhaven Mills in 1917; Demolished in 2009 to make way for a shopping plaza. [11] 8: New Bedford Cordage Co. 1: Ash / Emerson: 9: New Bedford Cotton Mills Corp. 2: 1909: Coffin / Church Street: 80,000: 10: New England Cotton Yarn Co. 1: Coggeshall St
Roxboro Cotton Mill is a historic cotton mill complex located at Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina. It was built in 1899, and is a two-story, banked, textile mill with Italianate-style influence and slow-burning heavy timber frame construction. An addition to the original mill building was built in 1924, and together they measure ...
The Coleman Manufacturing Company (1897–1904) had the first cotton mill in the United States owned and operated by African Americans. [1] Organized in 1897 by Warren Clay Coleman and others, and operating under original leadership until 1904, it was located in the Piedmont area about two miles from the county seat of Concord, North Carolina ...
The site was built by the Riverside Cotton Mills, which were later called Dan River Inc. Most of the industrial buildings date from the 1880s through the 1910s. Rather than hiring local residents who were mostly black, the company exclusively recruited rural white workers. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Tillinghast Factory ruins, 1915 photo [2] The Tillinghast Mill Site is an historic industrial site in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The site is the location of a cotton mill established in 1812 most likely by Allin Tillinghast and Joseph Joslyn Tillinghast. [3] The mill was more formally known as the Mount Hope Factory.