Cotton mill - Wikipedia
Cotton mills and their owners dominated the economy and politics of the Piedmont well into the 20th century. Adams & Bazemore Cotton Warehouse in Macon, Georgia 1877. Asia. The modern Indian mechanised textile industry was born in 1854, when a steam-powered mill was opened in Bombay by Cowasjee N. Davar. More followed: there were 10 by 1865 and ...