Central Georgia Textile Mills

Author : Billie Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439659366

Get Book

Central Georgia Textile Mills by Billie Coleman Pdf

Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Tifton, Forsyth, Porterdale, and Hawkinsville, among others. The textile mills provided employment and sometimes a home in their villages to people across Georgia as the agrarian lifestyle gave way to industrial expansion. In these mills, photographer Lewis Hine captured iconic images of child labor. After the decline of production and closing of the mills, many have been revived into new usages that honor the legacy of the mill workers and their families who lived in the villages of the textile mills across Central Georgia.

Author : Billie Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781467124256

Get Book

Central Georgia Textile Mills by Billie Coleman Pdf

From Macon to Hawkinsville, the history of Georgia's once thriving textile mills is documented in this visual history. Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Tifton, Forsyth, Porterdale, and Hawkinsville, among others. The textile mills provided employment and sometimes a home in their villages to people across Georgia as the agrarian lifestyle gave way to industrial expansion. In these mills, photographer Lewis Hine captured iconic images of child labor. After the decline of production and closing of the mills, many have been revived into new usages that honor the legacy of the mill workers and their families who lived in the villages of the textile mills across Central Georgia.

Author : Lisa M. Russell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439669655

Get Book

Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia by Lisa M. Russell Pdf

The textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia's red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved south. Mill owners enticed an entire workforce to leave their farms and move their families into modern mill villages, encased communities with stores, theaters, baseball teams, bands and schools. To some workers, mill village life was idyllic. They had work, recreation, education, shopping and a home with the modern conveniences of running water and electricity. Most importantly, they got a paycheck. But after the New Deal, workers started to see the raw deal they were getting from mill owners and rebelled. Strikes and economic changes began to erode the era of mill villages, and by the 1960s, mill village life was all but gone. Author Lisa Russell brings these once-vibrant communities back to life.

Author : University of Georgia Press
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0820317985

Get Book

The New Georgia Guide by University of Georgia Press Pdf

The Georgia Humanities Council presents a guidebook with cultural, historical, and regional coverage of Georgia

Author : Spencer C. Tucker,Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216045557

Get Book

American Civil War [2 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker,Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique insight into the Civil War from a state and local perspective, showing how the American experience of the conflict varied significantly based on location. Intended for general-interest readers and high school and college students, American Civil War: A State-by-State Encyclopedia serves as a unique ready reference that documents the important contributions of each individual state to the American Civil War and underscores the similarities and differences between the states, both in the North and the South. Each state chapter leads off with an overview essay about that state's involvement in the war and then presents entries on prominent population centers, manufacturing facilities, and military posts within each state; important battles or other notable events that occurred within that state during the war; and key individuals from each state, both civilian and military. The A–Z entries within each state chapter enable readers to understand how the specific contributions and political climate of states resulted in the very different situations each state found itself in throughout the war. The set also provides a detailed chronology that will help students place important events in proper order.

Author : Virginia E. Causey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820372099

Get Book

Red Clay, White Water, and Blues by Virginia E. Causey Pdf

Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city’s founding in 1828 and brings its story to the present, examining the economic, political, social, and cultural changes over the period. It is the first history of the city that analyzes the significant contributions of all its citizens, including African Americans, women, and the working class. Causey, who has lived and worked in Columbus for more than forty years, focuses on three defining characteristics of the city’s history: the role that geography has played in its evolution, specifically its location on the Chattahoochee River along the Fall Line, making it an ideal place to establish water-powered textile mills; the fact that the control of city’s affairs rested in the hands of a particular business elite; and the endemic presence of violence that left a “bloody trail” throughout local history. Causey traces the life of Columbus: its founding and early boom years; the Civil War and its aftermath; conflicts as a modern city emerged in the first half of the twentieth century; racial tension and economic decline in the mid-to-late 1900s; and rebirth and revival of the city in the twenty-first century. Peppered throughout are compelling anecdotes about the city’s most colorful characters, including Sol Smith and His Dramatic Company, music phenom Blind Tom Wiggins, suffragist Augusta Howard, industrialist and philanthropist G. Gunby Jordan, peanut purveyor Tom Huston, blueswoman Ma Rainey, novelist Carson McCullers, and insurance magnate John Amos.

Author : Nancey Green Leigh,Edward J. Blakely
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781506363974

Get Book

Planning Local Economic Development by Nancey Green Leigh,Edward J. Blakely Pdf

Written by authors with years of academic, regional, and city planning experience, this classic text has laid the foundation for practitioners and academics working in planning and policy development for generations. With deeper coverage of sustainability and resiliency, the new Sixth Edition explores the theories of local economic development while addressing the issues and opportunities faced by cities, towns, and local entities in crafting their economic destinies within the global economy. Nancey Green Leigh and Edward J. Blakely provide a thoroughly up-to-date exploration of planning processes, analytical techniques and data, and locality, business, and human resource development, as well as advanced technology and sustainable economic development strategies.

Author : Cotton Manufacturers Association of Georgia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Cotton manufacture
ISBN : UVA:X001984616

Get Book

Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers Association of Georgia by Cotton Manufacturers Association of Georgia Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade. Multifiber Arrangement Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951D002756604

Get Book

Multifiber Arrangement Task Force Field Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade. Multifiber Arrangement Task Force Pdf

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff,Christine Anderson
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400005246

Get Book

Fodor's the Carolinas and Georgia by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff,Christine Anderson Pdf

Describes points of interest in each state, recommends restaurants and hotels, and includes information on shopping, transportation, entertainment, and historical sites.

Author : Salwa Jabado,Doug Stallings
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400008087

Get Book

Fodor's The Carolinas and Georgia by Salwa Jabado,Doug Stallings Pdf

Discusses dining, lodging, and sight-seeing in the Carolinas and Georgia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112063839200

Get Book

Manufacturers' Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : MINN:31951D00357202T

Get Book

National Water Summary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : UOM:39015027831489

Get Book

U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : UIUC:30112003889380

Get Book

National Water Summary 1987 by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf