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  2. Virginia cloth - Wikipedia

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    Virginia cloth was a coarse cloth made by natives of Virginia. The fabric has a record of existence in 1721 and was used for servants' wear. The fabric has a record of existence in 1721 and was used for servants' wear.

  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. Colony of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.

  5. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    [81] 137 communes were founded from the 1787s to 1860. In the early 20th century a few urban communes were established. Almost all these efforts typically collapsed in a year or two as the members quit. [82] There was a surprise renewal in the Counterculture of the 1960s. [83]

  6. Cotton mill - Wikipedia

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    Mills were made by millwrights, builders and iron founders. [42] By the end of the 18th century there were about 900 cotton mills in Britain, of which approximately 300 were large Arkwright-type factories employing 300 to 400 workers, the rest, smaller mills using jennies or mules, were hand- or horse-driven and employed as few as 10 workers. [43]

  7. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Map depicting the Colony of Virginia. Made between 1609 and 1638 by Willem Blaeu. George Yeardley took over as Governor of Virginia in 1619. He ended one-man rule and created a representative system of government with the General Assembly, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.

  8. 73 Brands That Are Still Made Right Here in the USA - AOL

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    While the company closed its East Liverpool, Ohio, plant, which meant leaving the city where it was founded in 1871, it's still made in America — but in Newell, West Virginia. Amazon Crayola Crayons

  9. Southern Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Virginia (also known frequently as the Virginia Colony or the Province of Virginia, and occasionally as the Dominion and Colony of Virginia) was an English colony in North America which existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution (as a British colony after 1707 [12]).