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Mills, Trades & Industry

Mill villages, trades, labor, and industry.

316 works in the index name this theme.

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Sheer Resilience : An Untold Story of A Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C

Scarlett, Beverly A. · 2024

The Key

Berman, Rita · 2014 · Righter Books

UNC

Orange County, North Carolina

2012 · The Commission

[1] A planning/management process for Orange County, North Carolina with recommendations for sound land development.

Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century

Thorp, Holden; Goldstein, Buck · 2010 · University of North Carolina Press

History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010 · [S.E. Dunaway] ; [Distributed by Lulu.com]

"This book provides a brief genealogy overview and an in-depth look into the mill remnants on Duke Forest property"--Back cover.

Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.)

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010 · S.E. Dunaway

At the heart of progress: coal, iron, and steam since 1750 : industrial imagery from the John P. Eckblad collection

Riggs, Timothy A · 2009 · Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, March 21-22, 1991: interview L-0064-6, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

This is the sixth interview in a nine-part series of interviews with civil liberties lawyer Daniel H. Pollitt. In this interview, Pollitt describes in vivid detail the UNC food workers' strike of 1969. He begins by esta…

Oral history interview with Ashley Davis, April 12, 1974: interview E-0062, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Davis, Ashley · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Ashley Davis arrived as a student at University of North Carolina in 1968 and became involved with the Black Student Movement (BSM). Still in its infancy, the BSM was a growing force on campus, and in 1969, the food wor…

Oral history interview with Elizabeth Brooks, October 2, 1974: interview E-0058, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Brooks, Elizabeth · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Elizabeth Brooks discusses her role in the UNC Food Workers' Strike of 1969. Originally from Caswell County, Brooks had lived in Hillsborough since 1949. Prior to working for food services at the University of North Car…

Orange County major employers : a publication of the Orange County Economic Development Commission

1997 · The Commission

UNC

Mill village memories

by Valerie Quinney. · 1980

UNC

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