The world of textiles is a community as well as an industry. "We have focused on the history of that community life," says Jerrie Nall, director of the Textile Heritage Museum. The museum is located in the old cotton mill village of Glencoe, just north of Burlington, North Carolina, in the heart of the Southeastern U.S.'s traditional textile belt. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the Southeastern U.S. was blossoming with textile mills. "Every town had at least one mill," says Kathy Barry, co-director of the museum. "Originally, they were all built on the rivers, because they used water-powered turbines. After the 1880s, they started building mills along railroads to more easily transport materials and finished goods."
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