ALAMANCE CHATHAM ORANGE PERSON ROCKINGHAM ALLEGHANY ALEX- ANDER DAVIE SURRY CASWELL DAVIDSON GUILFORD FORSYTH DURHAM WAKE JOHNSTON HARNETT MOORE RANDOLPH STOKES ASHE WATAUGA WILKES LEE DUPLIN WAYNE WILSON NASH HALIFAX WARREN NORTHAMPTON FRANKLIN GRANVILLE VANCE GREENE LENOIR ROBESON BLADEN RICHMOND UNION ANSON HOKE SCOTLAND CUMBERLAND SAMPSON Raleigh Charlotte Asheville Greensboro Winston- Salem Fayetteville Smithfield Clinton Sanford Southern Pines Pinehurst Statesville Mount Airy Morganton Uwharrie National Forest Pisgah National Forest Laurinburg Goldsboro Kinston Rocky Mount Wilson Marion Mill Towns Newton Forest City Shelby High Shoals Hardin Gastonia McAdenville Cramerton Belmont 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 Mill Alamance Cotton Mill Proximity Mill Clothing for Confederate war effort First 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 Saxapahaw High Point Draper Roxboro Henderson Durham Chapel Hill Carrboro Bynum Hillsborough Roanoke Rapids Leaksville ( ) Eden Spray Concord Albemarle Eldorado Monroe Rockingham Erwin Bessemer City Spindale Cliffside Textile Mills Selected Mills and Mill Towns IREDELL BURKE MCDOWELL BUNCOMBE RUTHERFORD POLK CATAWBA CLEVELAND LINCOLN AVERY MADISON MITCHELL YANCEY HENDERSON CALDWELL YADKIN ROWAN CABARRUS STANLY MONTGOMERY MECKLENBURG GASTON MAP BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE Yadkin River Cape Fear River Haw River Neuse River From The Way We Lived in North Carolina © 2003 The University of North Carolina Press Map © North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources All rights reserved.