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A History of the Factory Island Mill District
History of the Saco Manufacturing Company's cotton mills in Saco, Maine, a cluster of mills the first of which erected in 1826 as the largest cotton mill in the United States. Reorganized in 1832 as York Manufacturing and developed into one of the larges
http://www.sacomaine.org/community/history/factoryisland.shtml
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The Beginnings of the Textile Industry in Rowan County
Short article about the development of the cotton textile industry in North Carolina's Rowan County, starting with the Salisbury Cotton Mills in the 1880's and growing into one of the largest mill areas of the state.
http://www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/PublicLibrary/HistoryRoom/TheoBuerbaumsSalisbury/CottonMills/tabid/460/Default.aspx
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Bellevue Mill Village
The history of the Belle-Vue Cotton Manufacturing Company and the mill village it founded in 1905 and sold to William L. Barrell Co in 1957. Placed on the National Register of Historic Placed in the 1980's.
http://www.orangenchistory.org/publications/BellevueMillHistory-3.pdf
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Boothstown Cotton Mills
The history of the seven cotton textile mills in and around Boothstown, United Kingdom, founded in 1760 when Thomas Smith carded raw cotton for hand spinners, until in 1984 the last mill folded. Includes notes on the Smith family, who owned most of the m
http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.smith/mills.htm
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Canton Cotton Mill
The history of the Canton Cotton Mills and mill villages in Canton, Georgia, from 1899 when Robert Tyre Jones facilitated the construction of the first mill, until 1981 when Canton Textile Mills closed its doors due to the growing dominance of polyester
http://www.rockbarn.org/cantonMill2.php
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Centenary Mill
The history of Centenary Mill, built by the John Horrocks Company in 1891 to mark 100 years of successful cotton manufacture in Preston, United Kingdom, and remaining in continuous operation until the 1980's when the mills were closed due to the general
http://www.princes-regeneration.org/bestpractice/centenary.htm
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The Cotton Mills of Fall River
Web site presenting vignettes on the owners, workers, technology and history of the steam powered Fall River Cotton Mills in Fall River, Massachusetts, from the late 1880's when it became the largest center for cotton cloth in the US, until 1931 when the
http://homepage.mac.com/joepowers/mill/index.html
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Indiana Cotton Mill
The history of the steam powered Indiana Cotton Mill in Cannelton, Indiana, founded in 1849 and remained in continuous operation until 1954, when it closed its doors as a cotton mill. Since 1976 the mill structure is listed on the National Register of Hi
http://www.perrycountyindiana.org/attractions/cottonmill.cfm
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History at Royal Mills
The history of the water powered Royal Mills in West Warwick, Rhode Island, founded in 1890 as a vertically integrated cotton textile mill, and in continuous operation until its closure in the late 1940's.
http://royalmillshistory.com/
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