1906: Mayes Manufacturing Co. was the first spinning mill in southern Gaston County in the town of Mayesworth, later to become Cramerton. Stuart Warren Cramer joined J.H. Mayes, Thomas and Andrew Moore, L.A. Dodsworth, J.L. Mayes, and W.H. Bronson to form Mayes Manufacturing.

1907: Riverside community, known as "Old Town", was built with approximately 28 houses.

1907: Mayes Banking & Trust was chartered.

1908: C.C. Dawson, at the age of 23, started working for Mayes Manufacturing after graduating from N.C. State.

1910: First Baptist Church Founded.

1912: Community Building, used for many activities including: Church services, and the First School, located in downtown.

1915: Town of Mayesworth was changed to Mayworth.

1915: Stuart W. Cramer became President and controlling owner of Mays Manufacturing, whose name was changed to Mays Mill, Inc. with 150 workers occupying 40 to 50 houses

This was the beginning of what would become the Town of Cramerton.

1916: The Company store established on the shortest Main Street in the world [100 linear feet]. Main street included a grocery store, ice plant, cold storage, bank, barbershop, beauty parlor, and a theatre.

1917: Maymont Mansion constructed. The mansion was designed based on a house Mr. Cramer had seen while traveling in England. The mansion has 38 rooms and features a unique swimming pool also used as a water reservoir for the fire extinguisher system at Cramer Mills.

1919: The Cramerton Hotel was completed.

1919: Mayworth School completed for grades 1 through 11, Mr.C.H. Schleifer, Principal.

1920: C.C. Dawson promoted to General Manager at age 35.

1920: Woodlawn and 12th Street homes are completed known as New Town.

1920: New Mays Office building completed.

1920: First Cramerton Baseball Park was located at the west end of Main St.

1920: The Baltimore School was the first African American school in Cramerton. The schoolhouse was built for the children of mill workers who lived in the Baltimore Neighborhood. The one room schoolhouse provided educational instruction for grades first thru eight until the mid-1950s.

After the school closed the building became a Community Center. It was a gathering place where locals came to watch movies, play games and celebrate Christmas and other special occasions.

The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission says the Community Landmark Building and Legacy should be preserved and a showcase for memorabilia inside.

1921: Name of town changed to Cramerton. The name of the school is changed to Cramerton School.

1921: Houses are built on 15th Street, Circle Street, and Washington Street area known as Baltimore.

1921: First Baptist Church was built by Mr. Stuart W. Cramer and presented to the Baptist of Cramerton and Dedicated August 28, 1921, Rev. J.P. Bennett first pastor. Dr. E.V. Hudson became pastor on March 1, 1926. He served the church for 31 years and retired on January 27, 1957.

1921: Cramer Memorial Methodist Church was organized in 1916 with the first service as Mayworth Methodist Church. Cramer Memorial Methodist Church completed in 1921 was built by Stuart Cramer in honor of his mother. Mr. Cramer ordered the front stained glass windows from Tiffany's in New York.

1921: Cramer Dairy provided milk and other dairy products. These products were sold to employees at a discount and given free to Cramer Dairy farm, which was located on Cramer Mountain.

1922: Mays Mill name changed to Cramerton Mills Inc.

1922: Population of Cramerton estimated at 2,500.

1923: Cramerton High School was completed, and Mr. A.S. Anderson was the first principal. Purple and Gold were chosen as the high schools’ colors.

1923: Mayflower Mill was built, the first vertically integrated cotton manufacturing complex.

1923: Major Stuart Cramer Jr. joins Cramerton Mills as executive assistant at the age of 31. He Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1913, attended the University of N.C., served active duty in U.S. Army, received an honorable discharged in 1922, and attended Philadelphia School of Textiles before joining the Mills.

1925: The Southern Railroad trestle was built over the South Fork River.

1926: Dam was built downstream on the South Fork River, water backed up to form Cramer Lake and Cramer Pond.

1926: A World War I Cannon was placed as a war memorial by Mr. Cramer. The cannon was located across the Street from First Baptist Church and on the grounds of the Hotel. It became a meeting place and hangout for the guys. The cannon was donated to the US Military for much needed scrap metal during World War II.

1926: Dam was built downstream on the South Fork River, water backed up to form Cramer Lake and Cramer Pond.

1926: A World War I Cannon was placed as a war memorial by Mr. Cramer. The cannon was located across the Street from First Baptist Church and on the grounds of the Hotel. It became a meeting place and hangout for the guys. The cannon was donated to the US Military for much needed scrap metal during World War II.

1927: Finishing Department added to Mayflower Mill. Cramerton now has an autonomous textile manufacturing unit, making yarn from raw cotton, weaving yarn to cloth, dying, finishing and shipping to customers.

1927: Cramerton golf course is a marvel of national beauty with excellent engineering as stated by the Gastonia Daily Gazette. “The course is for the use of the employees and business associates and guests of the Cramer's."

1929: Cramerton mills developed the famous 8.2-ounce “Army Kaki” (also known as Cramerton Army Cloth) became the standard basic uniform cloth throughout the armed forces. This fabric saw service through World War II, the Korean War & the Vietnam War.

1929: Cramerton School reached full capacity and students were sent to Brookland Circle and the Company Store in Old Town.

1930: Five Cramerton citizens were involved with four masked robbers around 3:30 a.m. after looting four stores in downtown Cramerton. The four were later arrested in Charlotte, and two had marks of shotgun wounds around their faces.

1934: Luther Lineberger started frying fish in the front yard of Buck Armstrong's house in Lakewood. This was the beginning of Lineberger's Fish Fry.

1935: Mr. C.C. Dawson named Vice President of manufacturing and elected as a company director. He also retained the tile of General Manager at the age of 50.

1935: Ruth Randall, a resident and employee of Cramerton Mills, died when a car she was riding in crashed into the bridge and plunged into the South Fork River.

1935: Buck Armstrong delivered payroll including Silver Dollars for any amount less than $5.00.

1935: Thompson sub-machine guns were used to protect the payroll delivery to Cramerton mill employees.

1936: The Cramerton School newspaper, The Weaver, was founded.

1938: Cramerton shares in hysteria over the big radio scare. Cramerton, like many other parts of the nation was thrown into a panic and confusion last night by the CBS Radio Broadcast by Orson Wells dramatizing H.G. Weeks’ imaginary version of what would happen if an army from mars should invade America.

1938: Cramerton Church of God was organized in 1932 with the first building erected in 1936. The building was destroyed by fire the following year. Services were held in the Cramerton Theatre until the new brick Church was built in 1938. It was the “First” brick Church of God built in North Carolina. Original site where Baker's Furniture is currently located. Rev. Henery, after relocating across the street, led the church through several building programs including: a Parsonage, Fellowship Hall, and a Sunday School facility to meet the growing needs of the church.

1939: Mr. Stuart W. Cramer Sr. became Chairman of the Board at the age of 71.

1939: Major Stuart Cramer Jr. promoted to President of Cramerton Mills, at the age of 47.

1940: Stuart W. Cramer Sr. died July 4, at the age of 71. A native of Thomasville, N.C. and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He was a legend in the textile world in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries and was responsible for the design of 150 mills, nearly one third of the mills in the south during this period. He founded 11 mills and was the inventor and patent holder for the Cramer System of Air Conditioning for mills. He was an engineer and a talented inventor. He achieved over 60 U.S. and international patents involving various aspects of textile manufacturing. Mr. Cramer built the ideal village in Cramerton with all the comforts known at the time, including electricity, indoor plumbing, and kerosene water heater.

1940: New Baseball Park was completed at the Cramerton Recreation Center. This was a WRA project started in 1932.

1941: New Cramerton Recreation Center, including a Gymnasium and swimming pool was completed by Mr. Cramer, and gifted to the town.

1941: The United States entered World War II, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1941: July 4th Celebration was held at the new Gym and swimming pool, with games, Swimming, ping pong, etc..

1942: The Great Community Revival took place at the First Baptist Church.

1942: Cramerton Mills was presented The Army Navy “E” for high achievement in production of Army Twill, also known as Cramerton 8.2 ounce Army Cloth. Today the famous name can be seen in clothes manufactured by Dockers as “Cramerton Khaki”.

1942: Mr. Cramer received notice to manufacture 8.2 Khaki Twill, known as Cramerton Weave for the U.S. Army Uniforms. Mr. Cramer voluntarily released the patent to allow other manufactures to produce the fabric for the Armed Forces.

1943: Reece Hardware was opened at 211 Market St. by Leroy and Albert Reece. Leroy retired after 55 years. The Hardware store closed in 1998.

1944: The High School basketball team, the Eagles, won the State Championship. This ushered in the golden era of high school sports in Cramerton. This period lasted through the 40s, 50s and 60s.

1945: The Cramerton High School Eagles basketball team won the State Championship for a second year in a row.

1946: Mr. A. S. Anderson retired as principal of Cramerton School after 26 years.

1946: Cramerton Mills and properties was sold to Burlington Industries. Burlington Industries began selling the Mill houses to Residents.

1946: Cramerton Free Will Baptist Church is dedicated.

1946: Cramerton Free Will Baptist organized in 1945. The newly formed group with 18 charter members with Brother Roy Rickard Pastor, held their first service Aug.1, 1946 in the new Church Sanctuary building.

1947: Bennett Hall was renovated. The Teacherage, was built in the 1920s by Mr. Cramer as a boarding house for single female teachers. The building featured an indoor swimming pool, and was located next to the Cramer Memorial Methodist Church.

1948: The legacy of the “fish Camp“ was born on the South Fork River, where the neighborhood of Lakewood is currently located. A few of the guy’s sein the river to catch fish, take them to Buck Armstrong's, and fry the fish over a wood fire in a large black frying pan fabricated in the machine shop at the Mill. As the group grew in numbers a log building was built with a large stone fireplace. Tables and benches were built which was typical in the early fish camps in the area. To meet the demands Luther Lineberger would order fresh fish from the Chesapeake Fish and Oyster Co. in Norfolk, Va. To be shipped overnight by rail to the Cramerton Depot. They were cooked at Buck Armstrong's cabin until the 1948 and the Lineberger's Fish Fry was founded.

1949: New bridge built over South Fork River to replace the original one lane bridge built by the Southern Railroad.

1949: Cramerton Presbyterian Church, once an Army Chapel relocated from Camp Butner to the current church site donated by Burlington Mills.

1950: The First worship service at Cramerton Presbyterian Church was held on January 1st.

1950: New additions of six classrooms to Cramerton School.

1950: Development of Lakewood subdivision.