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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.
6 Φεβ 2020 · Ceasar Cone ruled the family company with an iron but innovative hand. In 1913, he interjected Greensboro into a historically Northern niche by opening Proximity Printworks to handle the complex step of printing on fabric with dyes.
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.
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:
Centered around the oral histories of Cone mill village inhabitants "The Fabric of Memory" focuses on the experiences of people who worked in the mills and lived in the four Cone mill villages. "The Fabric of Memory" was curated by UNC Greensboro's Master’s program in History and Museum Studies.
The Fabric of Memory: The Cone Mill Villages. Culminating years of work on Greensboro’s textile mill villages, students created a permanent exhibition in a gallery within the newly redeveloped Revolution Mill, once the largest producer of flannel cloth in the world.
7 Ιουν 2016 · In the early 1900s, Greensboro quickly became a global hub for denim and flannel. Textile manufacturing company Cone Mills Inc. built several factories and transformed the surrounding areas...
