Furniture Industry of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont

T ~ nHE furniture industry of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont is located in the central portion of the Piedmont section of North Carolina and extends into the southwestern Piedmont of Virginia. This f urniture development produces more bedroom and dining room furniture than any other section of the United States, North Carolina ranking first in the production of wooden dining room and bedroom furniture, and second in wooden kitchen furniture. In the country's total production of wooden household furniture North Carolina ranks fifth, while in the production of all types of furniture it is exceeded only by New York, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Furniture is manufactured in all of the South Atlantic States, but nowhere has it reached the high stage of development attained in the central portion of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont (Figures 1, 2, and 3)

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