- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Coats & Clark Thread Mill historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Cobb County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Athens - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Clarkdale, 33.83094, -84.64966
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Newark St. at Bothwell St., at entrance to old mill, Clarkdale
Text of marker: "COATS & CLARK THREAD MILL 1931-1983. In 1931, Clark Thread Company opened a spinning mill here, giving the local economy a boost during the Depression with the creation of approximately 650 new jobs. Baled cotton was spun into unfinished thread that was then shipped to a finishing mill in Toccoa to be bleached, dyed and spooled. Except during WWII when the company had government contracts, the only product made here was industrial thread sold to clothing manufacturers. The company merged with J&P Coats Limited in 1952 to form Coats & Clark Inc. In the early 1980s the strength of the dollar against the Japanese yen made the purchase of imported thread less costly than producing it locally, leading to the closure of the mill in 1983." - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_coats-clark-thread-mill
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_coats-clark-thread-mill
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
