Browse Items (27 total)

Employee produced newsletter from Adams-Millis Corporation from September - October 1967.

In 1884, Beard and Roberts built a brick factory called Beard & Roberts Tobacco Factory. In 1904, this factory was leased and converted to the American Hosiery Mill by John and Ora Kerner. By 1909, 22 men and 103 women were employed there working…

Sock design patent filed by Herman Crawford.

Patent filed by Herman Crawford regarding the heel structure of hosiery.

Herman Crawford's patent filed for an ornamental design for ladies socks.

A patent filed for a new design in hosiery by Herman Crawford.

Davis Crew Knitting was the first knitting mill built in Kernersville for solely that purpose rather than converted. In 1899 the mill began with only 6 employees and 12 machines. It grew to employ to 25 employees and 65 machines by the time it was…

In the early 1900's the Kerner Greenfield Tobacco Factory was converted to a textile mill. Around 1936, H.E. Crawford Sr. founded Crawford Company, which made hosiery knitting machines and replacement parts. They used this location until they…

Having changed hands many times and even rebuilt on the same sight, the original building can still be seen within Highland Industries today.