{"nrhp_refnum":"02000339","name":"Newnan Cotton Mill and Mill Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Washington, Wilcoxen and Farmer Sts., and CSX RR.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newnan","county":"Coweta County","state":"GA","lat":33.37789541700005,"lon":-84.79386262926172,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late-19th and early-20th-century cotton mill complex and adjoining mill village east of downtown Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, built from 1888 onward, with 112 contributing and 8 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is argued to represent the rise of the textile industry in Georgia during the New South era and industrial development in Newnan. It is also presented as an excellent example of textile mill design and a representative grid-plan mill village, notable for its close proximity to downtown.","narrative":"East of downtown Newnan, only two blocks from the courthouse square, a cotton mill and its worker village survive along the rail line. The Newnan Cotton Mills corporation chartered the mill in 1888, and R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company built the two-story stone-and-brick building. It opened in 1889 producing cotton yarn and doubled in size with a 1905 addition. Warehouses, an opening and picker house, water towers, a quarry and a baseball field complete the industrial setting. The village grew from saddlebag duplexes on Field and Murray streets to additional streets of duplexes, saltbox houses and shotgun houses. Community buildings include Mills Chapel, Lovejoy Methodist Church, the Queen Anne mill manager's house and a 1916 mill office. The district is significant for industry, architecture and community planning, showing how a mill, its housing and its company-controlled worker life fit together. The mill now holds loft apartments, and many village houses are single-family homes.","period_of_significance":"1888-1951","architect_builder":"R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance, Late Gothic Revival; Other: saddlebag house, shotgun house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill ceased operating as a textile mill by 1970 and was rehabilitated between 1997 and 2001 as mixed-use loft apartments; most village houses are now single-family dwellings and both churches remain in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.131358-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000339/3b460b1ef5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000339/3b460b1ef5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gabrielle Micale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newnan_Cotton_Mill_Side.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabrielle Micale</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:Newnan_Cotton_Mill_Side.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207673","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141743892"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coweta-county/newnan-cotton-mill-and-mill-village-historic-district-02000339/"}