The Charlotte Cotton Mills.

PositionBricks & Mortar: Places where business happens

Cotton trader R.M. Oates and his three nephews opened Charlotte Cotton Mills in 1880. It is the oldest industrial building in downtown Charlotte. The L shaped, single-story building on West Fifth Street initially employed about 70 people, mostly women. J.B. Ivey & Co. and Speizman Industries Inc. used the building as a warehouse before it...

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