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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 and village.
In fact, Southern Living readers named three country stores in Georgia some of the most charming in the South. Here’s where they can be found: Helen, Georgia - Betty’s Country Store.
The mill was built by John Calhoun Terrell and his son Francis Leonard about 1870. The mill was operated the last time around 1942 by Lowell S. Terrell, F. L.'s son. Besides the grist mill, F. L. Terrell operated a saw mill, a syrup mill, a cotton gin, a country store, a farm, and served as justice of the peace.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., trading as Cracker Barrel, is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company's headquarters are in Lebanon , Tennessee , where Cracker Barrel was founded by Dan Evins and Tommy Lowe in 1969.
The A. D. Strickland Store was constructed around 1878. [3] The store is a one-story, wood-framed, building and it features a gable-front, a tin roof, a fireplace with chimney, and gable returns on the front and rear facades. [3] By 1870, D.L. King owned the property and at that time it was called, "Dawn's Place". [3]
The store also offers items expected in a country store such as preserves, jams, syrups, cornmeal, sauces and spices. Founded in March 2007 in south Georgia, the main store is in Cordele with ...
Much of the audience and many of the artists in Atlanta's country scene lived in the area's three main mill towns: Cabbagetown (Atlanta), a neighborhood in Atlanta itself, Chattahoochee, today within the city's northwestern limits and known as Whittier Mill Village, and Scottdale, just northeast of Decatur. [1]
It holds the record in the State of Georgia as the longest operating stand alone country store in the entire state. There is a controversy over the actual date of the store's beginning. A current resident of Villanow states that Joseph Warren Cavender was not even born yet in 1840, but is generally believed to be the builder/owner.