Lily Mills was located in Shelby, on the edge of cotton country in the piedmont of North Carolina. It was founded in 1903 as the Lily Mill and Power Company by John Schenck. It was one mill of a growing industry in the area, and by the 1940s, there were twenty spinning mills in the Shelby area, some of which were also making products that were then marketed by Lily Mills.
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