In 1776, Jedediah Strutt and his family created one of the world's earliest planned industrial communities, with housing, ...

A two-year project to transform a historic cotton mill into a distillery is complete, and the distillery opened on Saturday. The Mount Holly Cotton Mill, located at 250 N. Main St., is now the Muddy ...

People who work amid bales of raw cotton are less likely to get lung cancer than are people in the general population, a study of Chinese women indicates. While past research has shown that workers in ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series. “It is indeed the most important enterprise yet undertaken west of the Blue Ridge,” the Asheville “Semi-Weekly Citizen” proclaimed in February ...

With each pedal or paddle down the Blackstone River, visitors slide deeper into a living history book, passing communities that read like chapters in the story of the Industrial Revolution. The ...

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 ...

Mumbai is known as the Cotton City of India because of its leading role in the cotton textile industry, cotton mills, yarn ...