Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 9/17/17


(Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Winston-Salem Journal on July 14, 1998.)
Textile-mill villages were common in North Carolina throughout much of the 20th century. The companies that owned the factories would build low-cost housing near the mills. The arrangement enabled workers to get to work quickly and gave the owners a not-insignificant measure of control over their employees’ private lives.

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