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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 ...

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 ...

Wilma Rider started at the bottom when she went to work for Mount Vernon Mills. She quit high school at 17 to take a job running looms at the cotton mill in tiny Alto, north of Gainesville. That first ...

1 of 3 — Architects' drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates) 2 of 3 — Architects' drawings show the concept for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Belper North and East Mill form part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site [Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site] A ...