July 27, 2024
Tag: The Birth of a Mill Town
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The Birth of a Mill Town Kannapolis, NC
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Early this month Postcard History contributor, Tony Crumbley plied the history that James W. Cannon created when he built the world’s largest textile mill in a town he created: Kannapolis, North Carolina. Tony returns today with another fascinating account of the town around the mill.
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June 26, 2022 2 Comments
Roscoe Arbuckle could have been an acclaimed tenor in any of the world’s opera houses, but he chose vaudeville and kept America laughing for decades. Fatty Arbuckle wasn’t a pioneer with an idea of entertaining “the troops” but he sure did his share to make it happen. Many of his antics were recorded with Kodak A3 cameras; we have real-photo postcards as evidence.