- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Muscogee Mills (Columbus, Ga.)
- Creator:
- Linley, John
- Date of Original:
- 1974-08
- Subject:
- Grant, John J.
Murphy, S. G.
Swift, George Parker, 1815-1897
Swift, George P., Jr.
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Muscogee Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ga.)
Second Empire
European
Brick
Textile mills
Industrial buildings
Factories (structures)
Architecture--Georgia--Columbus
Architecture--Georgia--Muscogee County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: Front Avenue and Fourteenth Street, Columbus, Ga.
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.
Date of structure: 1880. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0248
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0248#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0248/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], John Linley, Box 8
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
-
