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Cone Mills Villages/McAdoo Heights-Family Heritage. 2.1K members. About this group. If you or your parents or your grandparents, etc. grew up in the Cone Mills villages, this site is for you.
Mill villages were company-owned towns, built from scratch by textile mills to house their factory workers and their families. In the early 1900s, Cone Mills Inc. built five villages to serve its Greensboro factories.
The family history begins in 1846 when Herman Kahn left his home in Bavaria, Germany, for a new life with his sister’s family in the United States. Nothing is reported until Herman Kahn (now changed to Cone) opened a wholesale grocery business, H. Cone & Sons, in Baltimore in 1870.
Greensboro’s Cone mill villages have a rich history familiar to those who lived there, but largely unknown to those who did not. This online exhibit, created by graduate students in UNCG’s Museum Studies program, shares the memories of Cone mill villagers through images, maps, stories, and discussions. Explore:
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They represent the thousands of people who lived in the five former mill villages owned by Cone Mills. They recall those days — the hard times and the happy times — with nostalgia. Please ...
An Interactive Online Exhibit. Greensboro's Cone mill villages have a rich history familiar to those who lived there, but largely unknown to those who did not. This online exhibit, created by graduate students in UNCG's Museum Studies program, shares the memories of Cone mill villagers through images, maps, stories, and discussions.
