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Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Alamance Cotton Mill Records #4, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Alamance Factory and E. M. Holt and Sons, prior to 1940.

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• Alamance Cotton Mill (Alamance County, N.C.)
• Alamance County (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Carrigan, William A.
• Cotton manufacture--North Carolina.
• Holt, Edwin Michael, 1807-1884.
• Textile industry--North Carolina.

Alamance Factory was built in 1837 by Edwin Michael Holt on Great Alamance Creek, the site of his father's grist mill. Though there were already perhaps two small mills in operation in Alamance County, this date may be considered the beginning of the industrial development of the county. Holt and his heirs dominated the industrial life of the county for the next century.

Alamance Factory continued under Holt management for 89 years; and twenty-four of the county's twenty-nine cotton mills were controlled by members of the Holt family for periods ranging from fourteen to eighty-nine mills, during the period of development.

Scattered business and miscellaneous papers, 1839-1926, and 34 volumes, 1844-1926, including 11 oversized volumes. The volumes include merchandise ledgers, store journals, shipping and production books, time books, letter books, invoice books, and other records relating to manufacture and sales.

• SV-4/S, 7, 9-11, 13, 15, 22, 23, 28, 34.