A lone smokestack in Tifton is all that remains of a cotton mill that shaped the city for generations.

Roy Price was a card fixer at the Asheville Cotton Mill during the Depression. He maintained the machines that combed the cotton sent from the picker room. When he arrived home, he brushed lint from ...

Into the 1920s, the city’s largest employers were the cotton manufacturing corporations. As extensively documented, during the early years of Lowell’s mills the workforce was composed largely of ...

THE earliest employees of the New England cotton mills were secured almost exclusively from the farm and village population immediately adjacent to the early manufacturing centres. These employees ...

A town in Derbyshire is planning a year of special events to mark the 250th anniversary of the first water-powered cotton mill. In 1776, Jedediah Strutt and his family created one of the world's ...