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Cotton trade -- North Carolina. Cotton manufacture -- North Carolina. Cotton manufacture -- United States. Textile industry -- North Carolina. Company towns -- North Carolina. Set up and electrotyped. Published June, Norwood Press J. Norwood, Mass, U. While living in a rapidly growing mill town ten years ago, the sight of scores of wagons transferring scanty household goods from farmhouses to factory tenements awakened his interest in the sudden transformation of farmers into factory operatives.
