Textile Industrial Revolution
Comes to North Carolina
Comes to North Carolina
North Carolina
1813 – Michael Schenck /Ab. Warlick – Lincolnton on a tributary of the Catawba River
soon thereafter Henry Humphries –A Guilford County friend of the Holts, on a tributary of the Deep River
Alamance County – the Haw River Valley – what a treasure. Power, recreation, mills, swimming, fishing.
Water rights were like gold. Many grist mills and saw mills preceded textiles.
1832-1838 Trollingers – High Falls - today's Copland Fabrics located in Hopedale, NC
1837 Edwin Michael Holt / William Carrigan
Alamance Cotton Factory –Big Alamance Creek
1844 Granite Falls – Ben Trollinger – Haw River
1747 Adam Trolinger (spelled with one l) came to Haw River, son Jacob built a grist mill
In 1854 the North Carolina Railroad reached the Haw River connecting Durham to Greensboro.
1858 Mill sold to E. M. Holt
1862 sold mill to son, Thomas Holt
1848 Saxapahaw – John Newlin & Sons
1857 The first factory-dyed yarn south of the Potomac at the Alamance Cotton Factory – plaids now possible!
1868 Falls Neuse (Virginia) – Swepsonville
Gustave Rosenthal / George Swepson
1869 Carolina – James H. & E. A. Holt
1878 Altamahaw –J. Q. Gant & Berry Davidson
1879 Bellemont –L. Banks Holt & Berry Davidson
1880 Ossipee – Holt family and Williamson
1880 Glencoe –James H. & William. E. Holt
Glencoe Cotton Mill was the last water-powered mill built on the Haw River.
Continue on next page Beyond Water Power to Steam
Copyright Gary N. Mock 2009
1813 – Michael Schenck /Ab. Warlick – Lincolnton on a tributary of the Catawba River
soon thereafter Henry Humphries –A Guilford County friend of the Holts, on a tributary of the Deep River
Alamance County – the Haw River Valley – what a treasure. Power, recreation, mills, swimming, fishing.
Water rights were like gold. Many grist mills and saw mills preceded textiles.
1832-1838 Trollingers – High Falls - today's Copland Fabrics located in Hopedale, NC
1837 Edwin Michael Holt / William Carrigan
Alamance Cotton Factory –Big Alamance Creek
1844 Granite Falls – Ben Trollinger – Haw River
1747 Adam Trolinger (spelled with one l) came to Haw River, son Jacob built a grist mill
In 1854 the North Carolina Railroad reached the Haw River connecting Durham to Greensboro.
1858 Mill sold to E. M. Holt
1862 sold mill to son, Thomas Holt
1848 Saxapahaw – John Newlin & Sons
1857 The first factory-dyed yarn south of the Potomac at the Alamance Cotton Factory – plaids now possible!
1868 Falls Neuse (Virginia) – Swepsonville
Gustave Rosenthal / George Swepson
1869 Carolina – James H. & E. A. Holt
1878 Altamahaw –J. Q. Gant & Berry Davidson
1879 Bellemont –L. Banks Holt & Berry Davidson
1880 Ossipee – Holt family and Williamson
1880 Glencoe –James H. & William. E. Holt
Glencoe Cotton Mill was the last water-powered mill built on the Haw River.
Continue on next page Beyond Water Power to Steam
Copyright Gary N. Mock 2009