ROCKVILLE, Thursday, Feb. 9, 1860. Mr. THOMAS BRADY's mill, in Rockville, for the manufacture of cotton twine, took fire Wednesday night, about 6 1/2 o'clock, just as the hands were let out of the ...
Calculate the consequences for yourself Imagine a dearth of cotton, and you may picture the horrors of such a calamity from the scenes you may possibly have witnessed when the mills have only run ...
As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased ... By 1890, the number of active spindles in southern mills had nearly tripled from 1860 (Smith 1960:4).