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<br /> <br />A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING <br />2006 AS THE YEAR OF KANNAPOLIS' CENTENNIAL, <br />CELEBRATING KANNAPOLIS: PEOPLE, PRIDE AND PROGRESS <br /> <br />Whereas, Kannapolis wishes to celebrate and preserve its proud textile heritage <br />while embracing its vision of a renaissance which will re-define the city in the 21 sl <br />century; and a centennial committee is presently planning celebrations and <br />observances for the entire year of 2006, collecting and preserving their historic <br />records and photographs, and publishing accounts of their early history and <br />traditions; and <br /> <br />Whereas, Kannapolis was founded according to the vision of cotton merchant and <br />textile manufacturer James William Cannon in 1906 and built by the continuing <br />vision ofthe Cannon family and the people of Kannapolis on lands purchased by <br />James W. Cannon in northern Cabarrus and southern Rowan Counties; and <br /> <br />Whereas, 100 years later, David Murdock's vision for the North Carolina Research <br />Campus has renewed the people of Kannapolis' vision for the city, which <br />incorporated in 1984; and <br /> <br />Whereas, James W. Cannon built great towel manufacturing plants and erected <br />around those mills a "model mill town," a community with decent housing for his <br />employees, with good schools, numerous churches, adequate recreational facilities, <br />a business district, and good jobs; and <br /> <br />Whereas, skilled textile workers moved to Kannapolis frorn rnany other states to <br />work in the Cannon plants and produce textile products for the markets of the <br />world, making the Cannon name synonymous with quality and value; and <br /> <br />c.-~ <br />