- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Troup Factory historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Troup County
Cotton manufacture--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Troup County, 33.03351, -85.02834
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Flat Shoals Creek on U.S. 27, 10 miles south of LaGrange
Text of marker: "TROUP FACTORY. TROUP FACTORY, FIRST COTTON MILL IN TROUP COUNTY, GEORGIA, WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1846 ON FLAT SHOALS CREEK BY ROBERTSON, LESLIE & CO., OF MERIWETHER COUNTY. WATER POWERED CARDING, SPINNING AND WEAVING, IN A MASSIVE FOUR STORIED MILL, PRODUCED FAMED QUALITY SHEETINGS AND OSNABURGS UNTIL 1899. IN 1902, L.M. PARK BOUGHT AND REMOVED THE MILL TO LaGRANGE. MAXEY BROOKS (1796-1861), PIONEER MILLWRIGHT, BUILT AN IMPORTANT GRIST MILL ON THE SITE IN 1829 AND SOLD IT TO THE COMPANY IN 1846.ERECTED BY THE HISTORIC CHATTAHOOCHEE COMMISSION AND THE OCFUSKEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1980" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_troup-factory
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_troup-factory
- 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:
-
