In 1776, Jedediah Strutt and his family created one of the world's earliest planned industrial communities, with housing, ...

A two-year project to transform a historic cotton mill into a distillery is complete, and the distillery opened on Saturday. The Mount Holly Cotton Mill, located at 250 N. Main St., is now the Muddy ...

People who work amid bales of raw cotton are less likely to get lung cancer than are people in the general population, a study of Chinese women indicates. While past research has shown that workers in ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series. “It is indeed the most important enterprise yet undertaken west of the Blue Ridge,” the Asheville “Semi-Weekly Citizen” proclaimed in February ...

With each pedal or paddle down the Blackstone River, visitors slide deeper into a living history book, passing communities that read like chapters in the story of the Industrial Revolution. The ...

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. — The former Spray Cotton Mills in Eden is still smoking Thursday after it went up in flames. The massive fire started late Wednesday night and has burned for hours. Smoke was ...

Wilma Rider started at the bottom when she went to work for Mount Vernon Mills. She quit high school at 17 to take a job running looms at the cotton mill in tiny Alto, north of Gainesville. That first ...

After discussing possible closure last year and announcing numerous layoffs earlier this year, the Fayette Cotton Mill has finally ceased operations. The mill, which made yarn that was used in the ...

The former Cheney Mill site is being transformed into Pendleton Mill Lofts, a multifamily housing development. Progress Carolina, a company known for its expertise in transforming historic sites into ...