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Asheboro Hosiery Mills and Cranford Furniture Company Complex, also known as Cranford Industries and National Chair Company, is a historic textile mill and furniture factory complex located at Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. The complex includes three brick industrial buildings erected from 1917 through the 1940s and the Cranford ...
In 2001, a festival was held in Day's honor in North Carolina, hosted by the Minority Entrepreneur Training Institute of North Carolina. At the festival, important figures including a state Supreme Court justice spoke, and black dance groups performed, and pieces of Day's furniture were displayed as well; the festival aimed to encouraged black ...
The name cornrows refers to the layout of crops in corn and sugar cane fields in the Americas and Caribbean, [1] [6] where enslaved Africans were displaced during the Atlantic slave trade. [7] According to Black folklore, cornrows were often used to communicate on the Underground Railroad and by Benkos Biohó during his time as a slave in ...
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
White Furniture Company, was a major American producer of hand-crafted fine furniture for over a century (1881–1993). Founded by the White Brothers of Mebane, North Carolina , the factory notably produced furnishings for the US government and the Grove Park Inn .
Trained as a cabinetmaker by his uncle, he emigrated from England in the 1740s to Virginia [3] and, around 1746, settled in Charleston (Province of South Carolina). [4] By the middle of the 18th century, "Charles Town" was booming economically. Middle-class citizens were becoming wealthier than in New York or Philadelphia. [5]
Since the loss of the main mill building, the centerpiece of the village today is the two-story brick company store building. This building served as a mill office with the upper floor used as a school room and for church services from 1907-1917. In 1912 a steel truss bridge engineered by the Rudisills was built across the Henry River.
Kousser, J. Morgan. "Progressivism-for middle-class whites only: North Carolina education, 1880–1910." Journal of Southern History 46.2 (1980): 169–194. online; Knight, Edgar W. Public school education in North Carolina (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916), a standard scholarly history. Kruman Marc W. Parties and Politics in North Carolina ...