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Hillsborough’s cotton mill from its first production in 1897, through weaving, its women workers and Cone Mills ownership, to the relocated mill houses and its closing in 1984.
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Yarn production started late in the year.
New looms extended operations beyond spinning yarn.
Reports from the years before the wartime changes count about 500 workers at Hillsborough's Eno Cotton Mill, 150 of them women and 50 children under 16, on a 60-hour week. The top average daily wage for women was $1.75 against $4.00 for men; at the smaller Bellevue mill nearby women's top average was $2.50.
The subsidiary joined the Greensboro textile corporation.
Most company houses moved into nearby neighborhoods.
At the Eno Plant's seventieth anniversary celebration in Hillsborough, Cone Mills recognized at least six of its 385 employees for fifty or more years of work at the mill, five of them women.
Textile production ended at the Hillsborough plant.
The property became a business center with varied tenants.
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