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A Unique Team Unites to Reestablish a Community through Thoughtful Revitalization of an Abandoned Textile Mill


WRITTEN BY | CHRISTINA KOCH t 20 RETROFIT // March-April 2013


here is a saying that you can’t go home again. Essential- ly, it means after leaving a small community for a me- tropolis, you’ll never be able settle back into a simpler lifestyle or recapture days of yore. Six business partners


in Saxapahaw, N.C., would beg to differ. Although half of them had left their home state of North Carolina to pursue big dreams in places like New York City and even on the other side of the world in Australia, they were lured back to the quiet Southern countryside for varying reasons and, consequently, were brought together by an unlikely place: Saxapahaw, pronounced Sax-puh-haw.


A tank used to dye yarn has been repurposed to welcome guests to the Haw River Ballroom.


PHOTO: HEATHER LAGARDE


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