The historic North Carolina mill village cast as District 12 in “The Hunger Games” is up for grabs. The rural village reached audiences worldwide when it served as the heroine Katniss Everdeen’s ...

SAVE says : "In Manchester, the growth of the cotton trade drove the city’s expansion, leading it to become the world’s first ...

State officials have stopped work on the Ponemah Mills site in Taftville as they investigate whether excavated material there is contaminated. In an email to city planning and building officials, ...

Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...

See the Boott Cotton Mills Museum Weave Room and the Merrimack River Riverwalk like you've never seen them before. Photos and video provide 360° panoramic vistas. Pop-up boxes contain in-depth ...

1728 William Byrd “discovers” Danville area while surveying dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina. 1792 Town charter by Virginia General Assmebly “for a town on the lands of John Barnett, ...