In the 1890's the Cone family opened the Proximity Manufacturing Company
Explanation:
In the year 1895 the Cone family opened a large cotton mill in the lands that the cone brothers had accuired in the years prior around greensbro; managing a few years later to expand and open a second location white oak mill, one that would become the largest cotton manufacturer of the south and the world at given time. Estimative numbers say that the factories consumed thirty-five million pounds of cotton yearly and produced more than seventy-five million yards of cloth with it.
Question: What did the cone family open in North Carolina in the 1890s
Answer: The Cone Family opened the ''Cone Mills Corporation'', which was world leader in textile manufacturing of flannel, denim, corduroy, and other cotton fabrics in the 20th century.
The Cone brothers bought land and they built textile mills that spun out denim, flannel and corduroy. They also turned the city Greensboro into a major manufacturing city.
