- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of baseball team, Milstead, Rockdale County, Georgia, 195-]
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1959
- Subject:
- Baseball teams--Georgia--Milstead
Business--Georgia--Rockdale County
Costume--Georgia--Rockdale County
Portraits--Georgia--Rockdale County
Recreations--Georgia--Rockdale County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Rockdale County, 33.65424, -84.02661
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Milstead, 1950s. Members of the baseball team sponsored by the Milstead Division-Callaway Mills gather in uniforms for this group photograph.
2003/07/08: The mill sponsored a semipro baseball team that traveled by Greyhound bus to play other teams in mill towns across Georgia. Milstead had bungalows, not common row houses, plus paved streets and sidewalks when downtown Conyers was still dirt. When the mill ceased 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operations in 1960 and finally shut its doors in 1961, some workers stayed and found jobs at Lithonia Lighting and other companies. Today, the historic village (with its updated mill houses) has an active homeowners association and hosts an annual spring festival. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_roc098
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:roc098
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
