There were 18 mills by the 1830s. It became known as the textile center of the world. The mills started down here in the south because of the abundance of water power. Secondly, because of the abundance of people and employees, potential employees, and also, the obvious reason, cotton. There was plenty of short Staple Cotton everywhere. These men who decided to go into the textile industry had no experience whatsoever. They just decided to create these gigantic mills. The other thing that makes this very interesting is that these men got together as partnerships and that is so unlike anywhere else in the world because they competed with each other and yet, they partnered with each other, they served on each others boards. These men decided to build an empire together and they also decided to build greenville. The History Museum is a wonderful place, and it is a wonderful place because it pays homage to where greenville really started, and especially the textile industry, the textile ex
Take a look at where three crashes took place in Hillsborough County and one in pasco county today. Action air 1 was over the scene at usf, where deputies say a van struck and killed a homeless man this morning along bruce b. Downs boulevard. Deputies say the man stepped in front of that van. In river view, a motorcyclist died along u. S. 301 around 6 30 a. M. And investigators have not released his name. In pasco county, another motorcyclist killed after colliding with a tractor trailer around 12 30 a. M. Troopers say 24yearold daniel alero may have been speeding when he slammed into the rig. Good afternoon, everyone. Have some rain just beginning have some rain just beginning to pop up across the southern counties. What were tracking is this, some nasty weather with thunderstorms, Tornado Warnings across a good portion of the northern gulf coast from near the panhandle of florida, right on through mobile, alabama and into biloxi, mississippi. There is a marginal chance of pretty stro
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I am carry drew in for juliet. Ben im ben simmoneau. Happy friday. Mike woods is in his friday best. That morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you very much. Passover begins tonight. Happy passover. Happy friday. Lets get you rocking and rolling. 40 65 at central park right now. Its mild. We have 640 in newark and 57 in belmar. Same in bridgeport. Temperatures are mild this morning. Those are not yesterdays highs. Thats what we have now. We are 150 warmer than it was yesterday in central park. 21 in sussex and 26 in poughkeepsie. Temperatures. The other tradeoff is that we have a lot more cant cover in the tristate and showers moving through Northern Tier of the tristate and a few sprinkles that have tried to flirt with us. You will see this our chances picking up and the reason being is that there is a lot going on. If the east and northeast. Its the isolated storms and i think the big day with Severe Weather or anything like that but the heavier downpours and isolated storms. 720 by mid
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