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Roswell Mill was a cluster of mills located in Fulton County near Vickery Creek in Roswell, Georgia, north of Atlanta. [24] The mills were best known for producing finished textiles from raw materials grown on nearby plantations, and the group was "the largest cotton mill in north Georgia" at its height. [25]
The Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center provides a venue where visitors can learn about the past as well as appreciate nature. The property is located on 9770 Autrey Mill Road, Johns Creek, Georgia. It is a haven to humans and animals alike from the busy metro-suburb north of Atlanta.
Roswell Historic District (ID74000682 [1]) Designated CP. May 2, 1974. Roswell Mill refers to a cluster of mills located in Fulton County near Vickery Creek in Roswell, Georgia. [2] The mills were best known for producing finished textiles from raw materials grown on nearby plantations, and the group was "the largest cotton mill in north ...
Completed. 1881. Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is a formerly operating mill complex located in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Construction of the complex began in 1881 on the south side of the Georgia Railroad line, east of Downtown Atlanta, on the site of the Atlanta Rolling Mill. The site now includes separate phases of multi ...
Whittier Mill Village. Whittier Mill Village, originally Chattahoochee, a recognized neighborhood of Atlanta on the Upper Westside of Atlanta. It is roughly contiguous with the Whittier Mills Historic District, both locally- and NRHP -listed. The mill and the adjacent village were founded in 1895. The area is a good example of a Southern mill ...
Plantation Plain. NRHP reference No. 80001001 [1] Added to NRHP. November 24, 1980. Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge is a historical site in Smyrna, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] The site includes a gristmill building, the Miller's house, and a covered bridge.
Akers Mill underwent bankruptcy in 1879. The mill closed in 1889 with "liabilities of $100,000 and assets about the same." As the Atlanta area grew, the forgotten gristmill became derelict; and on August 15, 1978, its remnants were protected by the U.S. National Park Service, as part of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.
Atlanta History Center documents show references to the name Pearl Park, after the daughter of a developer who built houses directly to the east of the mill houses near modern-day Pearl Street. The mill, at its height, employed 2,600 people. A protracted strike in 1914-15 failed to unionize the factory's workforce. For over half a century ...