Dan River
Americannoun
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Robinson, 62, graduated from Dan River High in 1978.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
The company already had mills nearby, and the new site — a former furniture factory along the Dan River — offered plenty of water for textile finishing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2021
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, an estimated 39,000 tons of coal ash spewed into the Dan River after a drainage pipe running below a waste dump collapsed at a Duke Energy plant in Eden, North Carolina.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
His master, he said, traded his services to "Dan River Jim Scales" who "bossed" the teams between Augusta and Wadesboro which were owned by John Durham Scales and Dan River Jim Scales.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
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