A Great HistoryChatham ManufacturingIn the early 1920s John Hanes of the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company bought a one-room cabin on over one thousand acres of land surrounding a small stream called Grassy Creek, just outside of Elkin, North Carolina, in todays Yadkin Valley. Haness sister, Lucy, married a second generation principle of the Chatham Manufacturing Company, Thurmond Chatham, in the...