Abstract:
Chatham County's industrial growth was centered in its two largest cities, Siler City and Pittsboro. Siler City boasted: a hosiery mill, feed mill, Hadley-Peoples Manufacturing produced yarn, Oval Oak Manufacturing was the largest producer of washboards, lumber companies, and furniture manufacturers. In Pittsboro the established industries were: Odell Manufacturing Company spun cotton yarn and Chatham Manufacturing Company made labels sewn into clothes.