One of the country’s most extensive collections of textile machinery currently sits in Randolph County warehouses, and it could soon form the basis for North Carolina’s first new state-run history ...

VERNON -- A 76-year-old textile mill revived by a new owner eight years ago has failed to survive the weak economy and overseas competition and is set to close this summer. Amerbelle Textiles in ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

For more than a century, Burke County workers toiling at furniture factories, textile and hosiery mills helped power Western North Carolina’s economy. With those industries now in decline, their ...

FALL RIVER – Reader Ronald Bernardo wrote in to “Fall River Wonders” to say he remembers seeing bales of cotton being offloaded from trains and he’s always wondered how cotton got made into threads ...

An abandoned textile mill in Gaston County was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places, according to a press release from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ...

An 89,000-square-foot industrial building in Lewiston more or less fell into the lap of a Medford, Mass., investor who originally hails from Maine. GWD Properties LLC bought 3 Middle St. from Hall & ...