- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Bibb Company (Columbus Plant), Thirty-eighth Street & First Avenue (Columbus vicinity), Columbus, Muscogee County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Contributor to Resource:
- Anderson, William D,
Colbath, H S,
Comer, Hugh M,
Hanson, J F,
Jordan, G Gunby,
Newton, R B,
Rigby, Walter,
Sharpe, David,
Lowe, Jet,
Kimmelman, Barbara A,
Lupold, John S,
Karfunkle, J B, - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Columbus (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
textile mills
wooden buildings
manufacturing
war (World War II)
war (World War I)
textile industry strikes
textile industry
railroad companies - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 34 | Measured Drawing(s): 1 | Data Page(s): 29
Significance: The main building of this operating textile mill extends a remarkable 1010 feet east from a bluff overlooking the Chattahoochee River. Until 1954 an American system of rope drive, turned directly by water turbines, powered portions of the original section of the main mill. Much of the rope drive equipment can still be seen in the pulley house and rope tower. The town of Bibb City, established in 1903, surrounds the mill. The history of the mill and village reflects a strong paternalist management typical of many rural Southern mills.
Survey number: HAER GA-12
Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work - Local Identifier:
- HAER GA,108-COLM,27-
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga0255/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
