Kannapolis, North Carolina Kannapolis, North Carolina Location of Kannapolis, North Carolina Location of Kannapolis, North Carolina State North Carolina Kannapolis (Kuh-na-puh-lus) is a town/city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U.S.

State of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte urbane area.

The town/city of Kannapolis was incorporated in 1984.

The populace was 42,625 at the 2010 census, which makes Kannapolis the 20th biggest city in North Carolina.

The center of the town/city is home to the North Carolina Research Campus, a public-private venture that focuses on food, nutrition, and biotech research.

4 North Carolina Research Campus Early meaning and usage of the city's name was a direct reference to Cannon Mills Corporation, or James William Cannon himself.

A widely accepted origin of the word "Kannapolis" comes from the combination of the Greek words kanna (reeds, not looms) and polis (city), which some believed meant "City of Looms". Dr.

Kannapolis historian Norris Dearmon said the K might have been to distinguish the town from his Concord foundry village.

Since, Freeze said, "Jim Cannon didn't study Greek," Cannon did not name the town "city of looms".In 1906 J.W.

Cannon purchased the territory that later became Kannapolis, and acquired a total of 1008 acres in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties.

Cannon opened plants in Rowan County, Concord and in South Carolina totaling 20,000 workers.

Kannapolis is positioned on the boundary of Cabarrus and Rowan counties, with a greater portion of its region in Cabarrus County.

Route 29 (Cannon Boulevard) passes through the town/city east of the downtown area; U.S.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 32.5 square miles (84.2 km2), of which 31.9 square miles (82.7 km2) is territory and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 1.73%, is water. Kannapolis City Schools is the major school fitness for the city.

North Carolina Research Campus Murdock Core Laboratory at the North Carolina Research Campus The North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis is a 350-acre (140 ha) research and development office.

Murdock Research Institute, Dole Nutrition Research Laboratory, Duke University MURDOCK Study, General Mills, JC Med, Monsanto, NC A&T University, NC Central University, NC State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro.

Murdock, owner of the real estate business Castle & Cooke and former CEO of Dole Food Company, and Molly Corbett Broad, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, unveiled plans on September 12, 2005, for the research campus, as an economic revitalization universal that encompasses the site of the former Cannon Mills plant and entire downtown region of Kannapolis.

During the next several years, the NC Research Campus was advanced by Castle and Cooke in collaboration with UNC General Administration and a several North Carolina universities, including NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others.

In 2008, faculty from NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, NC A&T, NC Central, and Appalachian State moved into the Nutrition Research Institute building, directed by UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Plants for Human Health Institute, directed by NC State.

Funding for research and education activities at NCRC comes from federal and private research grants and donations, which support individual laboratories, and from the North Carolina State budget, which supplies general operating costs and salaries for faculty and support staff.

Murdock Research Institute, a not-for-profit research institute, operates a Core Lab facility that offers genomic sequencing, metabolomics profiling, and other research services.

One enhance park in the city, Vietnam Veterans Park (formerly, North Cabarrus Park) is maintained and directed by Cabarrus County. Vietnam Veterans Park (formerly, North Cabarrus Park) Kannapolis is positioned adjoining to Interstate 85, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Charlotte.

Concord Kannapolis Area Transit, also known as Rider, provides multiple small-town bus routes, with its farthest point reaching Concord Mills Mall.

CATS provides a bus stop and parking at Kannapolis' Home Depot parking lot.

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Minchin, Timothy J., "'It Knocked This City to Its Knees': The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and the Decline of the U.S.

Cannon Mills and Kannapolis: Persistent Paternalism in a Textile Town (University of Tennessee Press; 2013) 255 pages City of Kannapolis official website The Salisbury Post, daily journal serving Kannapolis, with archives of the former Kannapolis Citizen weekly Kannapolis City Schools North Carolina Research Campus Municipalities and communities of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Rowan County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina "City of Kannapolis | City of Kannapolis > Community > History".

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