Warren Clay Coleman built his 196,000-square-foot mill at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 601 South in Concord. The plant is now known as Fieldcrest Cannon Plant No. 9. Screengrab of city ...

The battle over a North Carolina textile heir’s fortune worth millions is now headed to mediation. It’s the latest development in the legal battle between Atrium Health and descendants of one-time ...

In 1900, Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” after opening the first Black-owned and -operated textile factory in the United States, which still stands today, ...

The contentious court battle over a North Carolina textile fortune between descendants of a storied N.C. textile family and Charlotte’s largest hospital system is over. And it ended with a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parkdale Mills, an historic yarn manufacturer based in Gastonia, is shutting down a facility in Stokes County and laying off over ...

In 2019, then-VP Mike Pence visited a Parkdale textile mill in North Carolina. I was surprised and disappointed to see Parkdale Mills executives blame the closure of the company’s Sanford textile ...

One of North Carolina’s prominent families has filed a lawsuit against Charlotte’s largest hospital system over millions of dollars in inheritance. Cannon textile mill descendants want to stop Atrium ...