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Alamance Textile Mills

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The original Alamance Cotton Mill was founded by?

a)

Edwin M. Holt and William A. Carrigan

b)

Bob and Kerr Scott

c)

Jacob Trollinger and John Smith

2.

The original Alamance Cotton Mill was built in

a)

1837

b)

1868

c)

1875

d)

1900

3.

The original Alamance Cotton Mill was the fourth mill in North Carolina and became famous for?

a)

Alamance Plaids

b)

Alamance Checks

c)

Alamance Flowers

d)

Alamance Pastel

4.

After 1837, Mills would be built in each of Alamance towns except?

a)

Haw River

b)

Glencoe

c)

Saxapahaw

d)

Mebane

5.

This mill and village is one of the best preserved communities in the state.

a)

Glen Raven

b)

Glencoe

c)

Haw River

d)

Ossipee

6.

Alamance County was an early leader in building and operating successful water-powered cotton mills in the South. From 1832 to 1880, Alamance County men established more than __________ water-powered mills, all located along the Haw River

a)

4

b)

8

c)

10

d)

12

7.

Alamance County had _______ textile mills operating by the turn of the 20th century.

a)

20

b)

30

c)

40

d)

50

8.

Burlington Industries began in Burlington in 1923 under whose leadership? This make took a chance on the new fiber RAYON and eventually becoming the world’s largest textile company in 1962.

a)

Spencer Love

b)

Ralph Scott

c)

Michael Holt

d)

Jacob Scott

9.

The city of Burlington attained the status of _________ Center of the South in the 1950s.

a)

Socks

b)

Shirts

c)

Hosiery

d)

Sheets and Towels

10.

The first hosiery mill in Alamance County was Daisey Hosiery (1896). In 1950, there were _________ hosiery manufacturers in Alamance County, and almost everyone worked in a textile or hosiery mill from the 1920s to the 1950s.

a)

10

b)

25

c)

45

d)

54