Historic preservation =community revitalization: new beginnings for Carolina Piedmont textile towns.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Sarah Whitfield Marion (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll
Abstract: By studying the impact of vacant textile mill buildings on communities, the
researcher showed how historic preservation played a role in combating the effects of
vacancy. Using a framework of community indicators, quality of life and economic
conditions during the last two decades of the twentieth century were measured in three
Carolina Piedmont textile towns: Albemarle, North Carolina, Morganton, North Carolina
and Spartanburg, South Carolina. Through these case studies, the researcher sought to
illustrate the effects that the textile industry’s decline had on mill communities in the
areas of economic viability, stability, heritage value, educational attainment and standard
of living. She then explored how the rehabilitation of the large mill complexes that the
industry left behind can help to reverse the effects of abandonment.
This thesis provides concrete evidence of the impacts that the decline of the
Southern textile industry had on the communities that it once sustained. The case studies
of three communities with rehabilitated textile mill complexes can help communities who
are faced with the same circumstances generate ideas and plans to use the historic built
environment as a catalyst for community change.
Historic preservation =community revitalization: new beginnings for Carolina Piedmont textile towns.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- Carolina Piedmont, historic preservation, rehabilitation, revitalization, tax credit, textile mill
- Subjects
- Historic preservation $z North Carolina.
- Historic buildings $x Conservation and restoration.
- Community development.
- Textile industry $z North Carolina.
- Abandonment of property $z North Carolina.