In 1902, a group of Niota businessmen met at the local train depot to figure out how to bring jobs to their small Tennessee town.
The man who led them was James Lafayette Burn, the town's railroad stationmaster. His idea was a hosiery mill – and he believed in it enough to help start Niota's first bank, so the people who worked there would have somewhere to keep their pay.
They named the mill after the Crescent, the rail line that ran through town. One stoplight, one mill, one idea: make something good, and make it here.
