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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.
Bibb Manufacturing Company was a textile company founded in Macon, Georgia, in 1876 and was sold to Dan River in 1998. Bibb Manufacturing Company, also known as "The Bibb Company" produced cotton products such as sheets, comforters, towels, curtains, and bedspreads.
The Dan River flows 214 miles (344 km) [5] in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. It rises in Patrick County, Virginia , and crosses the state border into Stokes County, North Carolina .
Also on the property was a contributing a one-story shop building built about 1928. It was built as a hotel-style dormitory for single female workers of The Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills, Incorporated (Dan River Mills). It continued as a residential facility until 1948 when it was converted to offices. [3]
The Dan River flows 214 miles in North Carolina and Virginia. It rises in Patrick County, Virginia, and crosses the state border into Stokes County, North Carolina. It then flows into Rockingham ...
MILLS RIVER - Developers are one step closer to breaking ground on a new grocery store complex in Mills River off N.C. 280 that now has a name: The Marketplace at Mills River.
Between 1728 and 1733, the Dan River Valley in the Granville District was surveyed by William Byrd II as part of efforts to delineate the North Carolina-Virginia border. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He soon thereafter purchased 20,000 acres of the land, which he described as the " Land of Eden " to attract prospective farmers.
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