Editing Saxapahaw, North Carolina (section)

==History==
[[File:Saxapahaw mill homes.png|thumb|left|Mill homes in 1917]]
The [[Former Saxapahaw Spinning Mill]] and [[James Monroe Thompson House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> The name Saxapahaw is from the [[Catawban languages|Catawban]] /sak'yápha:/, which is composed of /sak/ ("hill") and /yápha:/ ("step").<ref name = "Bright 2004">Bright, William (2004). ''Native American Placenames of the United States''. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 165, 425. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-3598-4}}.</ref>

Saxapahaw, like most communities in Alamance County, was a [[mill town]] built around the community's cotton mill and along the [[Haw River]]. The first mill was built in the community in 1844 by the [[Society of Friends|Quaker]] settler John Newlin, but was later demolished to make way for a brick structure. The current mill building was owned and operated by [[Dixie Yarns]] until 1994, when a tornado damaged the structure and operations never resumed. Building remodeling was completed in 2006 and the facility, now known as Rivermill, houses apartments.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Textile mill finds new life | author=Rob Shapard | url=http://www2.nccommerce.com/eclipsfiles/14482.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714161236/http://www2.nccommerce.com/eclipsfiles/14482.pdf | archive-date=2011-07-14}}</ref>

The Haw River Ballroom is a music venue set in the former Dye House of Saxapahaw's historic cotton mill.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Currin |first1=Grayson Haver |title=Heather and Tom LaGarde are just getting started with Saxapahaw |url=https://indyweek.com/guides/archives/heather-tom-lagarde-just-getting-started-saxapahaw/ |website=INDY Week |language=en-us |date=20 July 2011}}</ref>