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Industrial expansion notes across North Carolina towns
Prosperity drives new factories and improvements from High Point to Egypt Depot. Firms plan shirt mills, burr flour mills, cotton gins, roller flour mills, brick works, wagon works, tobacco factories, ice machines, and canning facilities. Power upgrades and rail of development accompany multiple town projects, with firms like Harmony Butler & Co, Victor Cotton Mills, Harden Manufacturing, and North State Publishing Co shaping the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
J. L. Kirkman
Harmony
J. A. Butler & Co
Fayetteville
J. G. Layton, Jr
Mt. Airy
E. A. Sides
Wilkesboro
R. A. Burroughs
Jefferson
Wilmington
Mt. Airy Gold Hill
Gold Hill
R. K. Marshall
North Wilkesboro
W . Wallace
Salisbury
A. L. Peeler
Victor
Victor Cotton Mills
Monico
Long Island Cotton Mills Co
J. Fostick & Son
Laurinburg
Watauga County
Knoxville
Tenn
Milton
Golden Belt Tobacco Co
Trowbridge
Harden
Harden Manufacturing Co
King’s Mountain
Watterson
Asheville