sentences:  In 2002, the modern Occaneechi tribe bought of their ancestral land in Alamance County and began a Homeland Preservation Project that includes a village reconstructed as it would have been in 1701 and a 1930s farming village.During the early 19th century, the textile industry grew heavily in the area, so the need for better transportation grew.By the 1840s, several mills were set up along the Haw River and near Great Alamance Creek and other major tributaries of the Haw.