at one time, the cotton mill in McKinney TX was the single largest producer of denim in the world, now it hosts weddings, rents space to photographers and dance studios

The down side to a lot of textile production in much of the USA (and probably much of the world) was the contamination which poured into the rivers. There were a number of rivers I used to fish in when I lived in NC that you wouldn't consider eating fish from. We still have the raw materials but now understand a lot of what not to do.