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    A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the...
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    A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity...
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    The redevelopment of Mumbai's cotton mills began in 1992, when efforts began to demolish the numerous cotton mills that once dotted the landscape of Mumbai...
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    candy Cotton carding Cotton gin Cotton mill The Cotton Museum Cotton recycling Diplomacy of the American Civil War § Cotton and the British economy Environmental...
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    Valley Mills Partnership. The modern factory, or 'mill', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed...
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    and established Empress Mill in Nagpur, afterwards purchasing a bankrupt oil mill in Mumbai and converting it into a cotton mill. Tata's innovative strategies...
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    the Lancashire region's extensive cotton mill workforce. Factory owners no longer bought large quantities of raw cotton to process and large parts of Lancashire...
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    using water power. Strutt and Need joined Arkwright in the building of a cotton mill at Cromford, using what was henceforth called Arkwright's water frame...
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    Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill structure...
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    The scale of production in the mill towns round Manchester created a need for a commercial structure; for a cotton exchange and warehousing. The technology...
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    in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established...
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    regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed in cotton mills but were effectively unenforced until the Act of 1833 established a professional...
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    become a net importer of cotton cloth. Modernization of the industry was attempted in 1959 with the Cotton Industry Act. Mill closures occurred in Lancashire...
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  • mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills...
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  • The Fries Cotton Mill (also known as the Fries Cotton and Woolen Mill, the Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and F & H Fries Manufacturing Company) was...
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    major business set up by him was a cotton mill with the name of Juggilal Kamlapat Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills in 1921 which laid the foundation for...
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    Edale (section Cotton mill)
    Booth).: 27–33  Edale is the site of a historic cotton mill built in 1795 on the site of a corn mill and tannery by Nicholas Cresswell in partnership...
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    spinning machinery was installed in large factories, commonly known as cotton mills. The spinning wheel was invented in the Islamic world by 1030. It later...
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  • Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne Lancashire. A cotton mill Rock Mill, one of the Historic mills of the Atlanta area, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Rock Mill...
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    Arista Cotton Mill Complex, also known as Salem Cotton Manufacturing Company and Arista Cotton Mill (Fries Mill Complex) and Lentz Transfer & Storage Co...
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    Double Shoals Cotton Mill is a historic post-Civil War textile mill located at Cleveland County, North Carolina. It is a 2 1/2-story, brick building with...
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    History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain;. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson. Nasmith, Joseph (1895). Recent Cotton Mill Construction...
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    camp, saw mill, grist mill, and pottery business were established. In 1839, construction of the first cotton mill powered by the Hope Mills Dam was completed...
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    Strickland Cotton Mill. It was named for banker Remer Y. Lane. In 1951 Remerton was incorporated as municipality. In January 1979, Strickland Cotton Mills closed...
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  • the 1880s. By 1933 Southern mills produced more than seventy percent of cotton and woolen textiles in more modern mills, drawing on the pool of dispossessed...
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    The Mills (Chinese: 南豐紗廠), formerly known as Nang Fung Cotton Mills, located at No. 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Chai Wan Kok, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, was founded...
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  • former mill community along the Broad River, Cherokee Falls was a town until disincorporation in the 1990s. The former Cherokee Falls Cotton Mill is now...
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  • Priory Cotton Mill, opened in Birmingham, England in the summer of 1741, was the world's first mechanised cotton-spinning factory or cotton mill. Established...
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    Cannelton Cotton Mill, also known as Indiana Cotton Mill, is a National Historic Landmark of the United States located in Cannelton, Indiana, United States...
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    The Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3. c. 66) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was its first attempt to regulate...
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