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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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
20 Μαΐ 2016 · The permanent exhibit, which is free and open to the public, tells the story of the people who worked for the Cone factories and lived in mill villages, company-owned towns that were built to house factory workers and their families.
T he Cone Mills Corporation was established in 1891 when brothers Moses and Caesar Cone decided to enter the textile business in the South, where for more than a decade they had been wholesale grocery and tobacco distributors. Finding that the bolts of cloth from local mills they often received as payment sold easily, the Cones saw the potential for textile production and bought an interest in ...
