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unusual facts about textile mill



Dorsey Dixon

He was one of seven children, all of whom, together with their father, worked at the local textile mill, Darlington Cotton Manufacturing Company.

Kirchberg, Bern

A textile mill opened in 1871, followed by a consumer coop in 1872 and in 1890 an aluminum rolling mill and a weaving factory in Wydenhof.

The Red Horse

The novel begins in late Spring 1940 in the town of Nomana (a literary depiction of Corti's hometown Besana in Brianza) where the inhabitants live on agriculture, farming, or work in the textile mill owned by the local industrialist Gerardo Riva, Ambrogio's father.


see also

AlagappaNagar

There is a Textile Mill factory in this town named Alagappanagar Textile Mill Factory Originally build by Dr Alagappa Chettiar,

Ardwick Hall

Ardwick Hall was the home of linen merchant Robert Hyde, uncle to British textile mill owner Samuel Greg(1758–1834).

Bates Manufacturing Company

Bates Mill — a textile mill in Lewiston, Maine also known by that name.

Christopher Gore

The textile mill, however, was a success, and Gore invested in the Merrimack Manufacturing Company.

Cornelia, Georgia

Riegel Textile built one of the region's first major industrial facilities in 1966 with what was then an ultra-modern, cutting edge textile mill designed by Bill Pittendreigh in then neighboring community of Alto, Georgia.

Jinja, Uganda

In the 1950s, Manchester-based Calico Printers' Association, in association with the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), constructed a large textile mill (Nyanza Textile Industries Limited), locally known as Nytil.

My Hometown

Some of the song's images reference the recent history of Springsteen's own hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey, in particular the racial strife in 1960s New Jersey and economic tensions from the same times (e.g., the "textile mill being closed" was the A & M Karagheusian Rug Mill at Center and Jackson Streets of Freehold).

Rowland Hazard

Rowland G. Hazard (1801–1888), son of above, industrialist associated with textile mill complexes in Peace Dale and Carolina, Rhode Island

Via Gellia

The fabric Viyella, a wool and cotton mix, is named after the Via Gellia valley, the location of W. Hollins & Company's textile mill where it was originally produced.