Davidson noted that E. M. Holt’s antebellum Alamance Cotton Mill burned in April, 1871, and he was “called there by Mr. E. M. Holt to rebuild it. I commenced to frame the house on the 26th of June and began raising it on the 18th of July. I put in the machinery and on the 6th of December I started them to spinning and weaving.” The frame mill stood until the 1940s. Portions of the dam and several 19^th century mill houses still stand in the village of Alamance on Great Alamance Creek.