New Manchester Manufacturing Company
Mill, New Manchester (Douglas County), Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Mill
- Where
- New Manchester (Douglas County), Georgia
- Years
- 1861-1864
- Today
- Ruins
NEW MANCHESTER MILL
Five-story water-powered mill on Sweetwater Creek making cotton yarn and osnaburg cloth. Union cavalry shut the mill on July 2, 1864, arrested its women and child workers and burned the mill.
Then
The five-story water-powered mill on Sweetwater Creek made cotton yarn and osnaburg cloth.
Union cavalry shut the mill on July 2, 1864, arrested its women and child workers and burned the mill.
Now
Ruins
The mill ruins stand in Sweetwater Creek State Park.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 2.9 miles from the center of New Manchester (Douglas County).
Nearby
- 14 miAtlanta under Union occupationUnion · Rail junction, Atlanta, Georgia
- 14 miAtlanta arsenal, rolling mill and depotsConfederate · Depot, Atlanta, Georgia
- 14 miHood blows up his ammunition train and abandons AtlantaSeptember 1, 1864, Atlanta, Georgia
- 14 miSherman leaves Atlanta on the March to the SeaNovember 15, 1864, Atlanta, Georgia
- 18 miAndrews Raid on the Western and AtlanticApril 12, 1862, Big Shanty to near Ringgold, Georgia
- 22 miSherman cuts the Macon and Western at JonesboroughAugust 31, 1864, Jonesborough, Georgia