Record #:

11500

Author(s):

Weir, Lula M.

Abstract:

Founded in 1877 in Elkin, by the late Alexander Chatham and his brother-in-law Thomas L. Gwyn, Chatham Blanket Mills, now Chatham Manufacturing Company, is one of the oldest textile mills in North Carolina. The original plant had 284 looms and a capacity of 80,000 pairs of blankets per week. Chatham blankets are known world-wide today.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 1 Issue 35, Jan 1934, p17, por

Subject(s):

Textile industry--Elkin; Chatham, Alexander, 1834-1920; Gwyn, Thomas Lenoir, 1842-1934