Just like Lorillard Tobacco Co., which was broken up and sold.

Just like Dillard Paper Co., gone.

Jefferson-Pilot Corp., acquired.

Guilford Mills Inc., gone.

And Cone Denim will soon close its last Greensboro plant.

The plant that put the jeans in “Jeansboro” will end its run Dec. 31.

After 112 years of operation, International Textile Group announced Wednesday that its Cone Denim White Oak plant will close, resulting in about 200 people losing their jobs and a void in the city’s manufacturing tradition.

As millions of consumers wore jeans made at the plant, thousands of Greensboro workers raised families for more than 100 years on wages they earned at White Oak, building a culture and a corporate legacy that now survives only as a brand name in the city of its origin.

For the first time since the late 1800s, Greensboro workers will no longer make a product under the name Cone, one of the city’s indelible founding families.

White Oak, once the world’s largest denim plant at 1.6 million square feet with 2,500 workers at its peak, has been hailed in recent years as an innovative survivor in an economy that has been brutal for the textile industry, using its vintage looms to make denim in small batches for high-fashion jeans.

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