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Spinning New Uses for Textile Mills in U.S. South

by Pat Coate | June 20, 2005

Valley, AL - A few decades ago, when someone in the U.S. put on a pair of socks, there was a good chance they were made at a northern Alabama textile mill.

"This is an answer for us to help create jobs for the city and the whole area."

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