Industrial+Progress

In Charlotte, James B. Duke created dams along of the Catawba River to generate hydroelectric power, which eventually the Piedmont would benefit from. This started industry in North Carolina. Since, in North Carolina, most industry was soley focused on tobacco, textiles, and furniture and so the Duke family would form a monopoly on the production and selling on cigarettes until 1913 when Winson-Salem became a rival, due to R.J. Reynolds. Gaston County then became the center of textile industry, with nearly one hundred mills in the 1920's. Knitting mills were built also in Winston-Salem by the Hanes brothers. High Point had thirty-three furniture plants in 1900.
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The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) of Ohio had begun experimenting on the invention of airplanes ever since
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