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Kannapolis

City in west-central North Carolina, 40 km/25 mi northeast of Charlotte; population (2000) 36,900. It main products include towels, blankets, sheets, and pillowcases.

Established in 1877, Cannon Mills (now Fieldcrest Cannon), one of the world's leading household textile manufacturers, built the town around its mills in 1906; it remained an unincorporated company town for decades.



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Jimmy and his wife Verleen, residents of Kannapolis, North Carolina, were among the nearly 6,500 employees of the Pillowtex towel factory laid off in early August.
Exporting U.S. jobs: an engineered exodus of manufacturing and ... by Grigg, William Norman / The New American
and Molly Corbett Broad, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina, unveiled plans today for the North Carolina Research Campus, a massive scientific and economic revitalization project that encompasses the former Cannon Mills plant and entire downtown area of Kannapolis, North Carolina.
David Murdock Unveils North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis by Business Wire
When workers at the nation's largest textile plant, Fieldcrest Cannon in Kannapolis, North Carolina, voted to unionize in June, they broke a ninety-three-year anti-union streak.
Labor's Return by The Progressive
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