National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservation North Carolina

Rembember Cliffside - excellent site for information on Cotton Mill Village culture

South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office

Textile Heritage Museum

Textile Heritage Organization - The folks here are hard at work with the Textile Heritage Week

Way We Lived NC - Information about North Carolina history with map on textile mill locations in HTML and PDF formats

Music of Labor - Great article on songs about the working men and women

Si Kahn - folksinger and grassroot leader, composer of Aragon Mill and other songs to the working people

Textile Mill Songs - a playlist of songs dedicated to the textile mill workers

Cigar Factory:

Cigar Factory - Web page and overview of the Cigar Factory and its renovations

National Register - Web page for the Cigar Factory on the SCDAH

Cigar Factory's History - A more detailed account of the mill's history from their web page

Loray Mill:

Firestone Financial - A PDF with tremendous details, conceptual art, plans and financial information about the renovation

Gastonia, 1929 - Article about the strike at the Loray Mill

Loray project - Web site for the renovations that are in the planning stages

Raleigh-Durham:

Durham Hosiery Mill - Gorgeous pictures of a beautiful textile mill! I can't wait to photograph this one myself!

Golden Belt Manufacturing - A different type of textile mill, this one produced the little cloth bags that held tobacco

Digital Photography School - A blog with helpful articles digital photography

Mill Towers and Smokestacks - A Flickr group dedicated to photographic mill towers and their stacks

Old Textile Mills - A Flickr group who share a love of photographing the old textile mills (I'm Canon Kunoichi)

Photographers Society of America - Good source on photography information and beautiful pictures!