Millican Pictorial History Museum

Weaving Gaston County's Past, Present, and Future

Gaston Regional Chamber Celebrates 100 years!

Presented by Parkdale
Producers: Merryman Cassels & Sarah Park Rankin with Track One Productions
Camera: Dan Crawford
Editor: Tracy Hollifield
Thank you Allen Millican/Millican Pictorial History Museum

Gaston County Memories - The Loray Mill Strike of 1929

On April 1st, 1929, nearly 2,000 Loray Mill workers walked off the job and kicked off one of the most controversial and impactful labor strikes in United States history.

Learn more about the pictorial history book Gaston County Memories presented by the Gaston Gazette at GastonCo.Pictorialbook.com

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Pediment Publishing (pediment.com)

Photographs provided by:
Millican Pictorial History Museum
Gaston County Museum of Art and History
Edward and Carolyn Friday
Gaston Gazette

Film Footage:
California Cotton Mills (public domain)

Music:
Long Lost Mama by Tennessee Ten (public domain)

WWI posters:
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-7859 and LC-USZC4-7855

Produced by Jon Shields