As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat ... Northern industrialists encouraged the growth of these new mills because the potential profit from selling textile machinery was ...

Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded ...

The Gayle Mill dates back to 1784 and was built as a water-powered cotton mill by two local Quaker ... one woman could do 10 women’s work on a machinery that was available.