Download or read book Glencoe Mill Village written by Don Bolden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glencoe was a former mill town fallen into disrepair but was declared a historic site and restored, sharing the history of southern textiles. The Glencoe Cotton Mill and its village have a story very similar to that of other 19th- and 20th-century mill communities across the South. The mill operated from 1880 until 1954, and its employees lived in mill houses and shopped at the company store. After it closed, the community faded into vacant houses, rutted streets, and weed-covered properties. Unlike other mills, however, Glencoe found a spark of new life. People interested in its history--headed by Graham resident Sarah Rhyne--joined together to see the property declared a national historic site. Work reclaimed the mill and preserved it for the future. Preservation North Carolina helped, as did a number of individuals from the area, and life returned. Many of the mill houses have been purchased and restored and are now home to a new generation of residents. The Textile Heritage Museum occupies the old office-store building and, with its displays, shows the history of Glencoe and southern textiles in general.
Download or read book Glencoe Cotton Mill Village written by Martha Jane Dees and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking to the Future written by Wayne H. Drumheller and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2020, I invited current and former textile mill owners, managers and workers, families, business and community people and everyday people like myself in Alamance County, NC who share a love of history to take a heritage adventure with me and write their personal textile and hosiery stories as they related to the historic cotton mills along the Haw River and Glencoe Mill Village near Burlington, North Carolina. The original goal of the project was to produce a collection of visionary stories, essays and interviews about the future of the Textile Heritage Museum in the historic Glencoe Mill Village. The finished book became a much bigger story beyond the county line than I originally imagined"--Introduction by editor
Download or read book Manifestations of Social and Economic Transition written by Sarah Ashley Morris and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Stairs and a Hidden Lair written by Ken Prichard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three good friends decide to ignore another No Trespassing sign and explore an old cotton mill in a deserted village - just a short bicycle ride from their neighborhood. They unexpectedly make a new friend and then must rescue him from two unsavory characters who are on the run from the law.
Download or read book The Quest for Progress written by Sydney Nathans and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few would have guessed in 1870 that within fifty years North Carolina would be the most industrialized state in the South. The Quest for Progress recounts that half-century of turbulent change and growth. It is the fourth volume in The Way We Lived in North Carolina, a pioneering series that uses historic places as windows to the past. An accelerating pace of life was evident everywhere in North Carolina at the turn of the century, from mill villages to mushrooming towns. Sky scrapers and suburbs, country estates and mountain resorts testified to the state's new wealth. But new conflicts marked the era as well. Farmers plagued by debt fought back in a Populist movement that carried its cause to the nation. Working men and women fought to keep their independence on the factory floor. Black North Carolinians, despite violence and disenfranchisement, built the churches, colleges, and businesses that prepared the next generation to reclaim its rights. By 1920, North Carolina was a state transformed. Sites used to illuminate this period include mill villages, a tobacco factory, depots, schoolhouses, general stores, a fire station, a drugstore, and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. Each volume in The Way We Lived in North Carolina examines the social history of an era, weaving interpretation around dozens of historic sites and the lives of ordinary people who lived and worked nearby. The series is based on the premise that the past can be most fully understood through the joint experience of reading history and visiting historic places. These volumes will appeal to all who are interested in North Carolina history, historic preservation, and social history.
Download or read book Celebrating Glencoe Preservation of Its Textile History written by Nall, George T. and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Textile Heritage Museum is "one of a kind." Giant steps have been taken since it began in August 2001. The mission statement to preserve and interpret the history of the southern textile industry and the cultural heritage of a southern mill village with emphasis on Alamance County is being accomplished.What has been accomplished in recent years is a success story beyond description. It is a tribute to the planning, organizing, developing, coordinating and so much more which has come from the efforts of many people.Glencoe was once a thriving textile mill providing a livelihood for many families in Alamance County. Preserving and recording the history of the textile industry through the extensive collection of artifacts and documents in the Textile Heritage Museum creates an important link to understanding the mill's impact on future generations of hard-working individuals and the textile industry.In 2004, the Textile Heritage Museum proudly opened its doors to the public. for more than 5 years, founders George and Jerrie Nall, Dr. Sam Powell, and Kathy Barry worked tirelessly to restore the former company store and management offices, while promoting and encouraging the community to support a museum for textile history.In March 2019, the museum celebrated 15 years of success in historic preservation. The museum continues to educate and inspire visitors locally and abroad.
Download or read book Historic Preservation and Community Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habits of Industry written by Allen Tullos and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habits of Industry provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont -- the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain -- over the course of 150 years. By examining the social and religious culture of the region, Allen Tullos illuminates the lives of the working men and women whose "habits of industry" shaped their world. Tullos combines archival research with an extensive collection of oral histories to shed new light on the essentially all-white textile industry in the era before World War II. He examines such topics as workers' transition from an agrarian folk culture to an industrial working class, the changing patterns of employers' paternalistic relations, and the contrasting and complimentary meanings of "industry." Using biographies and autobiographies of both mill owners and mill workers, Tullos juxtaposes the entrepreneurial narratives of the Belks, Hammetts, Tompkinses, Dukes, and Loves with the equally remarkable stories of such workers as Ethel Hillard, Alice and Grover Hardin, and Nigel League.
Download or read book The Intersection of Work and Family Life written by Nancy F. Cott and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Intersection of Work and Family Life".
Download or read book Like a Family written by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice
Download or read book Down Along the Haw written by Anne Melyn Cassebaum and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina's Haw River has a rich geographic, ecological and cultural history, tracked here from its source to its confluence with the Atlantic Ocean. From grinding mills to algae science, this popular history features interviews with mill owners and workers, archaeologists, environmentalists, farmers, water treatment managers and many others whose lives have been connected to this river. Additionally, it explores life on the river's banks and humans' place in its rich ecology.
Download or read book Textile World written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North Carolina written by William S. Powell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative compendium, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is abundantly illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and maps."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Buying Time for Heritage written by J. Myrick Howard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical tools and strategies to be more effective preservationists. Myrick Howard makes clear that large sums of money are not necessarily needed to save endangered historic properties, but knowledge and passion are essential. This book shows how preservation-minded neighbors and organizations can succeed with only modest resources and rather than clash with developers, can become developers themselves for community benefit. Howard draws on case studies from forty-five years of successful work leading Preservation North Carolina, with lessons that are applicable coast to coast. This richly illustrated, fully revised and redesigned second edition includes detailed projects to renovate vacant houses in working-class neighborhoods; reflections on addressing racial equity through preservation; an expanded section on using preservation easements; and summaries of revolving fund programs around the country. Buying Time for Heritage is an indispensable resource for those looking to save the special places of our collective past.
Download or read book Burlington written by Don Bolden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burlington originated as a railroad town but gained worldwide fame as the home of Burlington Industries, once the largest textile maker in the world. Now a city of 50,000 people, it is the national headquarters of Laboratory Corporation of America, the second largest medical testing laboratory in the nation.
Download or read book The Way We Lived in North Carolina written by Joe A. Mobley and published by University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive social history of North Carolina by focusing on dozens of historic sites and the lives of ordinary people who lived and worked nearby. First published in 1983 as a five-volume series, this illustrated state history is now revised and available in a single volume.
