Dan River
Americannoun
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Danville has been desperate for jobs since the massive Dan River Mills moved its last textile operations overseas more than a decade ago.
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2020
In places like Caswell County, residents have fallen further behind, said Shannon Moretz, program director of the Caswell Chapter of the Health Collaborative, which studies health disparities in the Dan River Region.
From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2020
In 2014, a break in a pond at Duke Energy’s plant in Eden, N.C., sent 27 million gallons of sludge into the Dan River.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2020
In 2014 Duke Energy’s Dan River plant in Eden, N.C., spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River, prompting the state to order all of Duke’s coal ash ponds closed.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2018
Colonel Davie accompanied General Greene in his rapid retreat from the Catawba to the Dan River.
From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by Hunter, C. L.
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