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Thomasville native Stuart Warren Cramer - architect, author, and inventor - transformed the textile industry and turned the industry in a new direction with his innovations. Her perfected the layout of textile mills, developed an air-conditioning system, and created a first-class mill village.
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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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