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“Spindle City”

Gastonia, North Carolina

Gaston County's seat since 1911 and its largest city, Gastonia was a center of the Southern textile industry in the early 1900s and the site of the 1929 Loray Mill strike, a key event in the American labor movement.

Businesses listed
4,703
Population (2020)
80,411
County
Gaston

Landmarks & institutions

  • Schiele Museum of Natural History
  • Loray Mill Historic District
  • CaroMont Health Park
  • Downtown Gastonia Historic District

Sources:en.wikipedia.org web.archive.org data.census.gov

4,703 businesses · showing 985–1,008