{"nrhp_refnum":"00000754","name":"Stark Mill and Mill Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lincoln, Askew, Church, Keith, and Brazil Sts, Whaley Ave. and the Hogansville city limits","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hogansville","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":33.178974484000065,"lon":-84.90736192082525,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large textile mill complex and planned mill village of about 195 acres north of downtown Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia. The concrete-frame Stark Mill was built in 1923, and the village grew from 1897 onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the Stark Mill shows the shift from load-bearing masonry to fire-resistant concrete-frame mill construction in the 1920s. The village retains typical Georgia mill house types and a company-planned grid layout. The mill also supported the textile and rubber industries, including asbestos pipe insulation made for the Navy during World War II.","narrative":"Mill buildings and about 400 company houses make up this district of roughly 195 acres north of downtown Hogansville, Georgia. A group of local businessmen formed the Hogansville Manufacturing Company in 1897 and began building a mill and village. In 1923 New England Southern Mills added the reinforced-concrete Stark Mill, designed by the engineering firm Lockwood, Greene and Company. The complex includes brick cotton warehouses, a power house, a water tower and a rail line. The village follows a grid plan and contains pyramidal cottages, saddlebag houses and front-gable houses, along with a Craftsman-style community building, stores, churches and a baseball field. The mill is cited as an example of the move toward fire-resistant concrete construction. During World War II, under U.S. Rubber, the plant produced rubber goods and asbestos insulation for Navy ships. The district was listed for its industry, architecture, and community planning, and it has changed little since a 1944 survey except for the loss of Reid Mill.","period_of_significance":"1897-1950","architect_builder":"Lockwood, Greene and Company (engineering firm)","architectural_style":"Craftsman; Colonial Revival; pyramidal cottage; saddlebag house; front-gable bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Stark Mill is currently operated by Westech; most village residents no longer work at the mill; the Reid Mill was demolished, leaving only its water tower and power house; the district retains a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.221346-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000754.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000754/7e9b276e38-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000754/7e9b276e38-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stark_Mill_and_Mill_Village_Historic_District;_Hogansville,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stark_Mill_and_Mill_Village_Historic_District;_Hogansville,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209759","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141810239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/stark-mill-and-mill-village-historic-district-00000754/"}