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"It's always important to know where we came from," Hanchett said. "It's important to celebrate the hard work and vision that created the world we're in now, to realize that it didn't just happen [on its own]. Tom Hanchett, historian at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte.
Who knew that so much history from the industrial revolution took place here in Greensboro. The Cone brothers conducted their textile business after traveling all through the south. They entered the cloth manufacturing first in 1887. They then convinced 90% of the southern textile companies to allow Cone Export and Commission Company market their goods. In 1890 Cone moved to New York then came back to Greensboro because of the cotton fields, gins, warehouses and railroads.
The Cone brothers since then have embarked on a few different enterprises such as a cotton mill and flannel mill thanks to their good friends Emanuel and Herman Sternberger. The cotton mill quickly became a national leader in the making of denim. By the mid twentieth century the Cone corporation manufactured products like drills, suedes, jeans, diapers, sateens and other things.
Cone Mills shut their door in February 1982 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Sold to Revolution Associates, they were supposed to made into apartments but it was said they were not suitable for apartments and it was sold again. In 2003, Revolution Studio bought the mill and renovations began. Now 250,00 square feet of the 600,00 square feet mill is renovated and holds 97 businesses. Soon when the all the renovations are complete the mill and the memories will be back.


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