Record #:

15249

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

No list of pioneer manufacturers in North Carolina would be complete without including the name of Edwin M. Holt, founder of a great textile industry. With the water power of the Great Alamance Creek, Holt began his modest textile mill with help from Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin. From this small beginning sprang a textile empire which extended until it embraced hundreds of thousands of spindles and thousands of looms, giving employment to thousands in the Piedmont.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 33, Jan 1940, p7, 22

Subject(s):

Textile industry