Cedar Falls Mill
Randolph County, Randolph County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Cedar Falls Mill. Chartered 1828; opened 1836. Jonathan Worth, N.C. governor (1865-68), its president. Supplied clothing for Confederate war effort. 2 mi. N.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
Chartered in 1828 and opened in 1836, Cedar Falls was one of the early textile mills that harnessed the water power of the Deep River in Randolph County. Jonathan Worth — who would serve as North Carolina's governor from 1865 to 1868 — headed the enterprise, and during the Civil War the mill supplied cloth for the Confederate war effort.
Why it matters
It marks the rise of Piedmont textile manufacturing and the way those mills were pulled into the Confederacy's struggle to clothe its armies.
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