Lost Mills of Fulton County.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Lisa M.

Series:

Lost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton manufacture--Georgia--Fulton County--History.

Cotton manufacture.

Textile factories--Georgia--Fulton County--History.

Textile factories.

Factories--Georgia--Fulton County--History.

Factories.

Lost architecture--Georgia--Fulton County.

Lost architecture.

Fulton County (Ga.)--History.

Fulton County (Ga.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The History Press, 2023.

Summary:

Labor conflicts, arrests, espionage--it was all there at the once ubiquitous mills of Fulton County. Employee records and snatches of paper prove workers spied on each other. Company owners were paranoid about labor unions taking over. Copious documentation, unearthed here by author Lisa M. Russell, brings the workaday drama back to life. These mills sustained families, but exploitation was far from uncommon. When mill workers finally went on strike, there was hell to pay. The company bosses yanked strikers from their shacks. With the help of Governor Talmadge, the National Guard arrested working women with their children. They marched these "criminals" to a former WWI prisoner of war camp that once held enemy German soldiers. Hard to believe this was happening in and around Atlanta in the early 1900s.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: Lost Things, by Jacob Elsas

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Cotton

1. Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives

2. Cheap Cotton

Part II. Roswell Manufacturing Company

3. Remnants

4. Roswell King

5. July 1864

6. The Reconstruction of Roswell

Part III. The Expositions

7. The New South Exposed

8. The 1881 International Cotton Exposition

9. The 1887 Piedmont Exposition

10. The 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition

Part IV. Fulton Bag And Cotton Company

11. Jacob Elsas

12. Oscar Elsas

13. Strikes, Spies, and Espionage

14. Cabbage Town

Part V. Exposition Mills

15. It Began at the Fair

16. It Takes a Village

17. The Exposition Ends

Part VI. Whittier Mills

18. If These Bricks Could Speak

19. Elizabeth

20. Whittier Mill Village Association

Part VII. Lost And Lingering Legacy

21. So What? Who Cares?

22. Fill the Room

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Russell, Lisa M. Lost Mills of Fulton County

ISBN:

9781439677681

OCLC:

1381710783