- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Empire Mills historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Muscogee County
Mills and mill-work--Georgia--Columbus - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: 800 Front Avenue, Columbus
Text of marker: "EMPIRE MILLS. G.W. Woodruff began grist operations in 1861 on this site previously occupied in 1847 by E.T. Taylor Cotton Gin Company and in 1841 by William Waters Gerrard's cotton warehouse. Empire Mills ran night and day during the Civil War and was spared in 1865 when Union Troops burned all non-food-producing industry in the city. By 1887 it was the largest meal and flour mill in the South, operating 36 roller mills with a capacity of 600 barrels of flour per day. Empire also produced Graham flour, bran, grits, and cornmeal - all ground on eight runs of horizontal stones, some of which are displayed on this site." - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_empire-mills
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_empire-mills
- 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:
-
