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44253
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"The story behind Andrews Geyser is deep, complex, and as irrepressible as the man-made fountain itself. It goes back to the 1870s, when the railroad finally climbed the Blue Ridge Encampment near Old Fort. The tragic Cost of that achievement is till being uncovered today." To extend the railroad west over the Blue Ridge Mountains, Maj. James W. Wilson designed a route that looped back on itself multiple times. More than 3,000 men and several hundred women convicts from the state prison in Raleigh provided the labor. UNC Asheville professor Dan Pierce notes it as the most important piece of infrastructure connected to the history of western North Carolina.
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44268
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Just prior to the Great Depression, a Gaston County textile mill introduced special khaki weave that served our armed forces with distinction for five decades." Stuart Cramer was perhaps the most extraordinary industrialist and inventor North Carolina ever produced. In designing and building textile mills, he developed the earliest version of air-conditioning to control humidity in these structures. Divesting himself of other businesses on account of poor health, he bought a mill community near Charlotte and later called Cramerton. It became a model for modern mill communities. Cramerton Army Cloth was introduced ther in 1929, which became highly desired the United States military.
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43847
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"A devoted son honors his mom -- and all of North Carolina's mill workers -- through the Morganton-based Workers' Legacy Project". For 33 years, Mary Warlick served as a hosiery repairer at the Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills. The project gives former mill workers their due, preserving their memories through oral histories. This assemblage in turn is serving as a foundation for a documentary to be released in 2024. Partnering with the project is the History Museum of Burke County. On April 16, 2023, a monument referred to as the "Dignity of Work Monument", honoring mill workers was installed in front of the museum.
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