As textile giants like the Cone Brothers came along in the late 1800s with the industrial revolution, business was booming. Yet, just like any industry over time, a rise would eventually be met ...

Small, individualized mill enterprises existed in South Carolina in the early 1800s or maybe even late ... led to the demise of the textile industry in South Carolina from the 1970s through ...

Understanding both how extraordinarily profitable cotton was and how interconnected and overlapping were the economies of the cotton plantation, the Northern banking industry, New England textile ...

The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and ...

But in the 1800s that 30-foot fall started powering dozens of textile mills ... Thanks to its superior technology, Woonsocket industry kept going into the 1950s even as its cotton mills closed.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — A special fund-raising event that gives a nod to the thriving textile industry of the past ... towns all over New England in the 1800s," said Wendy Pirsig, archivist ...

Access to the public sphere and the professional world had been the prerogative of men in the 1800s. But the textile industry presented an opportunity for women. From the introduction of automatic ...

Payne City was a mill village founded in the late 1800s. It played a vital part in the textile industry in Bibb County and for a long time was a village separate from Macon and independently ...