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2. Cotton production in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Cotton production is a $21 billion-per-year industry in the United States, employing over 125,000 people in total, [1] as against growth of forty billion pounds a year from 77 million acres of land covering more than eighty countries. [3] The final estimate of U.S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, [4] with the corresponding ...

3. History of cotton - Wikipedia

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   King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (2010) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2015) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850 (2013) Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary ...

4. Wamsutta Mills - Wikipedia

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   Wamsutta Mills circa 1850 by William Allen Wall. Wamsutta Mills is a former textile manufacturing company and current brand for bedding and other household products. Founded by Thomas Bennett, Jr. on the banks of the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1846 and opened in 1848, Wamsutta Mills was named after Wamsutta, the son of a Native American chief who negotiated an early ...

5. Amoskeag Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   Divisions. Amoskeag Locomotive Works. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. [ 1] At its peak, Amoskeag had 17,000 employees and around 30 buildings.

6. Category:Textile mills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Waucantuck Mill Complex. Wilcox, Crittenden Mill. Willard Manufacturing Company Building. William Clark Company Thread Mill. Winooski Falls Mill District. Worcester Bleach and Dye Works. Worcester Corset Company Factory.

7. Supima - Wikipedia

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   Supima. Supima is a non-profit trade association in the United States whose main objective is to promote the use of U.S. grown American Pima cotton around the world [1] and is involved in quality assurance and research programs. Founded in 1954, it derived its name from superior pima. [2]