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cotton mill: Information from Answers.com (929 words) |
 | Cottons mills were an important part of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of socio-economic prosperity in England. |
| The first cotton mill in the United States was built in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1787. |
| After being spun and plied, the cotton thread is taken to a warping room where racks of bobbins are set up to hold the thread while it is rolled onto the warp bar of a loom. |
| Cotton's Journey - The Story of Cotton - HISTORY (431 words) |
| Cotton is a plant, it grows wild in many places on the earth, but it has been known about, cultivated and put to use by people of many lands for centuries. |
| cotton was referred to in a Hindu Rig-Veda hymn mentioning "threads in the loom." It is generally believed that the first cultivation of cotton was in India, though it grew wild in several locations around the world. People living in Egypt's Nile Valley and across the world in Peru were also familiar with cotton. |
| Cotton was grown by American Indians in the early 1500's, documented from sightings by the Coronado expedition 1540-42. The Spaniards raised a cotton crop in Florida in 1556. |
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