United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771Linley, John1974-08Located at: Front Avenue and Fourteenth Street, Columbus, Ga.Aerial view of the four-story brick building with an older two-story wing stretching behind, featuring a bell tower. George Parker Smith, a textile entrepreneur from Massachusettes, had moved to Georgia in the 1830s and established several mills in Upson County. He was attracted to Columbus by the combination of water power and river transportation. By 1866 Swift was reconstructing Coweta Falls Mill, previously owned by John J. Grant and destroyed during the Civil War by General Wilson's Union troops. In order to acquire additional capital, Swift and his son, George P. Swift, Jr., along with S. G. Murphy and John J. Grant, incorporated the Muscogee Manufacturing Company, with George P. Swift as president. In 1880, a second mill was completed just to the north of the first mill, distinguishable by its original bell tower. The original building housed carding, weaving, spinning, and spooling, while the second mill was designed for carding and weaving.Slide annotated: "Columbus."Date of structure: 1880.image/jpegForms part of: John Linley Collectionhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Grant, John J.Murphy, S. G.Swift, George Parker, 1815-1897Swift, George P., Jr.Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.Muscogee Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ga.)Second EmpireEuropeanBrickTextile millsIndustrial buildingsFactories (structures)Architecture--Georgia--ColumbusArchitecture--Georgia--Muscogee CountyMuscogee Mills (Columbus, Ga.)Muscogee Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ga.)StillImage