FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) — Inside a squat metal building on the outskirts of Fort Payne, Ala., huge spools of cheerfully colored thread hang like nursery mobiles above rows of blue knitting machines the ...

Gina Locklear combined her family's roots in the sock business with her own love of green living, and the result is an operation that produces organic cotton socks in northeastern Alabama. Zkano, the ...

Formerly dubbed “the sock capital of the world,” Alabama’s Fort Payne was once home to a bustling sock manufacturing industry. In fact, it’s been said that during a boom in the ’90s, Fort Payne once ...

One in eight pairs of socks around the world were once made in Fort Payne, Alabama, a teeny tiny town nestled in Alabama’s Mountain Country. According to the New York Times, at the town’s mid-1990s ...

Sock it to Me! Link Copied! CNN's Kelly Bowman reports on how one woman used her passion to save her family's sock mill.

FORT PAYNE — Inside a squat metal building on the outskirts of Fort Payne, Ala., huge spools of cheerfully colored thread hang like nursery mobiles above rows of blue knitting machines the size of ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) - Inside a squat metal building on the outskirts of Fort Payne, Ala., huge spools of cheerfully colored thread hang like nursery mobiles above rows of blue knitting machines the ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. - Inside a squat metal building on the outskirts of Fort Payne, Ala., huge spools of cheerfully colored thread hang like nursery mobiles above rows of blue knitting machines the size ...