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==History== Gastonia is named for [[William Gaston]], a jurist and [[United States Representative]] from [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n134 135]}}</ref> [[File:Girls running warping machines in Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Many boys and girls much younger. Boss carefully avoided... - NARA - 523104.jpg|thumb|[[Child labor]] at Loray Mill in Gastonia, 1908. Photo by [[Lewis Hine]].]] The [[Loray Mill strike]] occurred in Gastonia in 1929. The role of organizers for Communist Party-affiliated National Textile Workers Union (NTWU) alienated religious leaders in Gastonia, who denounced the organizers' ideology, undermining support for the strike.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia|last=Pope|first=Liston|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1965|isbn=978-0300001822|edition=5th|location=New Haven|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/millhandspreache00pope}}</ref> The strike collapsed after the death of Gastonia's police chief, Orville Alderholt, led to a murder trial of several militants including NTWU chief organizer [[Fred Beal]].<ref>Salmond, John A. ''Gastonia'' ''1929'': ''The Story of the Loray Mill Strike'', (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995)</ref> Beal was convicted in the killing but fled to the Soviet Union. The strike largely failed in attaining its goals of better working conditions and wages, and the American labor movement was never able to gain a foothold among textile workers in Gastonia. The strike, however, became for a while an international cause célèbre, figuring in several novels published in the 1930s. ===National Register of Historic Places=== [[File:Gastonia Bank.jpg|thumb|Citizens National Bank in Downtown Gastonia]] [[File:Gaston Music & Pawn.jpg|thumb|Intersection on East Franklin Boulevard]] The [[City Hospital-Gaston Memorial Hospital]], [[Craig Farmstead]], [[Downtown Gastonia Historic District]], [[First National Bank Building (Gastonia, North Carolina)|First National Bank Building]], Gaston County Courthouse, [[Gastonia High School]], [[David Jenkins House]], [[Loray Mill Historic District]], [[Robinson-Gardner Building]], [[Third National Bank Building]], and [[William J. Wilson House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20111216.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2011-12-16|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties:12/05/11 through 12/09/11|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>
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