Changes began in the 1850s. As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased. Entrepreneurs needed capital and a steady supply of workers for the southern mill ...

Knockroe Sugar Mill was erected by Alexander Christie Walker in 1893, the third mill to be established in the Isis in the ...

1816 Roanoke Navigation Co. chartered: rights to improve navigation of Roanoke River 1820s Boom period for Danville. 1828 Danville’s first cotton mill established: Danville Manufacturing Co. 1833 ...