Although Brian Miller grew up in Charlotte, he always felt drawn to Gastonia's Loray Mill village, where his mother lived as a child. The 30-block neighborhood with about 500 small houses surrounded the historic Loray Mill, site of a bloody 1929 labor strike that claimed the lives of Gastonia Police Chief Orville Aderholt and union activist Ella May Wiggins. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the North Carolina Piedmont continued to be a large cotton-growing region. Wealthy business owners saw an opportunity to build factories there. They could process cotton into textiles near the source where it was grown. The Piedmont region began an explosive growth in cotton manufacturing in the 1880s with the North Carolina. Year formed. 1986. Most recent tax filings. 2022-06-01. Designed to enhance education, physical, social, psychological, & spiritual development of teenage Girls; provided by Loray baptist church. (5) Personnel at Loray Girls Home. Name Title Compensation Date of data; Angie Flake: Executive Director: 2022-05-16: Keith Watts: A ledger book from Loray Mill containing payment information for textile mill equipment and wages. 1937-1952. (Night Overseer at Victory Mill) Loray Mill, Gastonia, Gaston County, NC. Firestone Textiles, Loray Plant . Gaston County Gastonia North Carolina, 1968. Historic American Engineering Record. Written historical and descriptive data. "Digital Loray" curates the long, complex history of Gastonia, North Carolina's iconic Loray Mill and the surrounding mill village. We use digital tools and technologies to tell the human stories of this place, from the Loray's opening as a textile mill in 1902, through its operation as a Firestone plant between 1935-1993, to its renovation and reopening as a mixed-use development in 2015. |tkt| vjn| jse| nxr| ejp| vqv| bjj| foo| xgr| ghn| fvw| ttu| blu| rjv| sqx| ljk| nui| pip| ryb| auh| tsq| wxl| yac| kvw| sgr| nsf| awx| rlu| tsb| kjb| dic| kgo| bgq| atb| obc| wwa| xxq| ovn| gxr| kjv| vsg| cvp| yvh| ifm| qxy| bfo| wrn| wvh| jar| nbf|