Along a nondescript street in the small town of Belmont, North Carolina, a community college is quietly helping revolutionize the textile industry. The Kimbrell Fiber Innovation Center at Gaston ...

Warren Clay Coleman built his 196,000-square-foot mill at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 601 South in Concord. The plant is now known as Fieldcrest Cannon Plant No. 9. Screengrab of city ...

SALISBURY — Rowan County, North Carolina and the South as a whole faced the collapse of an agriculture-based economy after the Civil War, and it took entrepreneurs and the communities they lived in to ...

In 2019, then-VP Mike Pence visited a Parkdale textile mill in North Carolina. I was surprised and disappointed to see Parkdale Mills executives blame the closure of the company’s Sanford textile ...

The stories of our region’s larger mills from the early 20 th century and their redevelopment are well documented—the Atherton Mill in south Charlotte; the Loray Mill in Gastonia; the Cannon Mills in ...

The Graham Fire Department was one of several units that responded to a huge fire at an old textile mill on Parker Street in Graham on Sunday night. Many of them worked all through the night, battling ...

Scot Wilson estimates he has spent most of his 56 years in an eight-block radius. The youngest of eight kids, Wilson was 16 when he started working at the yarn mill across the street from his family’s ...

There is a lot of history wrapped up in the textile industry in Columbus. Friday when a Gildan Yarn official confirmed to News 3 that it would close its North Highland plant off Fourth Avenue at 33rd ...

Music as a form of protest has a long history in the U.S. Activists have used songs to guide countless movements, from the abolition fight in the 1700s to anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and beyond.