The largest hosiery mills in the world are in North Carolina – Durham Hosiery Mills, Durham.
The largest towel mills in the world are in North Carolina—Cannon Manufacturing Company, Kannapolis.
The largest denim mills in the country are in North Carolina—Proximity Manufacturing Company, Greensboro.
The largest damask mills in the country are in North Carolina—Rosemary Manufacturing Company, Roanoke Rapids.
The greatest underwear factory in the country is in North Carolina—Hanes Knitting Company, Winston-Salem.
Gastonia is the center of the fine combed yarn industry of the South.
North Carolina embraces more mills that dye and finish their own product than any other Southern State.
North Carolina leads the entire South in the knitting industry.
There are 513 textile mills in North Carolina, a compared with 180 in South Carolina and 173 in Georgia. North Carolina mills are equipped with 5,321,450 spindles, as compared with 5,038,988 in South Carolina and 2,706,022 in Georgia.
Three-fourths of all the new spindles and looms set up in the South in 1920 were set up in North Carolina alone.
From the Raleigh News and Observer, as reprinted in The University of North Carolina News Letter, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 20, 1921
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