Revolution Cotton Mills

  • Also Known As: Revolution Division,Cone Mills

  • Vicinity: Roughly bounded by Southern RR, N Buffalo Creek, Yanceyville and 9th Sts
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1900/09/00 Moses H Cone Advisory and Financier Emanuel Sternberger and his brother Herman Sternberger, father of Sigmund Sternberger, begin operations at the Revolution Cotton Mills. Original buildings were constructed 1899-1900 and large scale construction continued through 1904.
1916/00/00 Sigmund Sternberger Work Sigmund Sternberger is named assistant treasurer and a director of Revolution. Three years later he succeeded his father as the mill's treasurer. In 1948 Revolution merged with the Cone Mills Corporation, of which he became a director.
1930/00/00 By the 1930s, Revolution Cotton Mill's becomes the largest exclusive flannel producer in the world.

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Particulars for Revolution Cotton Mills:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Industry Cotton
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Historic Use Parking lot
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Building Type Warehouse



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 1st March 1984

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Revolution Cotton Mills
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by Southern RR, N. Buffalo Creek, Yanceyville and 9th Sts.
Registry Number: 84002324
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 33
Contributing Buildings: 12
Contributing Structures: 2
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Industry, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1899, 1904, 1915
Associated People: Multiple
Historic Function: Domestic, Industry, processing, extraction, Landscape, Commerce, Trade
Historic Sub-Function: Parking lot, Multiple dwelling, Manufacturing facility, Warehouse
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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