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This is the back of the Glencoe cotton mill in North Carolina. Like most of the textile mills in the Carolinas, it was largely forgotten over the past few decades, after over 100 years of being a major industry for the area. Long before our current concerns about the environment, mills like this one were using renewable river energy to turn locally grown cotton into fabric. This mill is no longer forgotten, and the view from the other side of the building would show many of the old mill town houses now restored, and the mill store/office building is now a museum. The mill building itself still has a ways to go, but there is reason to hope that it will also be restored.
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