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Raleigh
Charlotte
Asheville
GreensboroWinston-
Salem
Fayetteville
Smithfield
Clinton
Sanford
Southern PinesPinehurst
Statesville
Mount Airy
Morganton
UwharrieNationalForest
PisgahNationalForest
Laurinburg
Goldsboro
Kinston
Rocky Mount
WilsonMarion
Mill Towns
Newton
Forest City
Shelby
High Shoals
HardinGastonia
McAdenville
CramertonBelmont
Mills with State Highway Historical Markers:
Schenck-Warlick Mill
Rocky Mount Mills
1. (built prior to 1816)
2. (building begun in 1818)First cotton mill in North Carolina
Second cotton mill in North Carolina
3. (opened 1836) —4. (built 1837) —5. - Cone Brothers (1895) —
Cedar Falls MillAlamance Cotton MillProximity Mill
Clothing for Confederate war effortFirst factory-dyed cotton cloth south of Potomac River
Pioneered marketing of denim and flannel
Pineville
Kannapolis
Mooresville
Salisbury
Lexington
Thomasville
Reidsville
Altamashaw
Elon
Haw River
Graham
Swepsonville
Burlington
Glencoe
Franklinville
SaxapahawHigh Point
Draper
Roxboro
Henderson
DurhamChapel Hill
Carrboro
Bynum
Hillsborough
Roanoke RapidsLeaksville
( )EdenSpray
Concord
Albemarle
Eldorado
Monroe
Rockingham
ErwinBessemer
City
Spindale
Cliffside
Textile MillsSelected Mills andMill Towns
IREDELL
BURKE
MCDOWELL
BUNCOMBE
RUTHERFORD
POLK
CATAWBA
CLE
VELA
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LINCOLN
AVERY
MADISON
MITC
HELL
YAN
CEY
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CALDWELL
YADKIN
ROWAN
CABARRUS
STANLY MONTGOMERY
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MAP BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE
Yadkin River
Cape Fear RiverHaw
River
Neuse
River
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