{"nrhp_refnum":"05000077","name":"Sargent Historic District","other_names":["Willcoxon Manufacturing Company","Wahoo Manufacturing Company","Arnall Mill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly centered on the Arnall Mill Complex at the jct. of GA 16 and Old Carrolton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sargent","county":"Coweta County","state":"GA","lat":33.43134174350004,"lon":-84.86754084351728,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Industry","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic mill village district in Sargent, Coweta County, Georgia, about five miles northwest of Newnan, centered on the Arnall Mill complex and its surrounding company housing, store, warehouses and other buildings, dating from about 1860 to 1964.","why_significant":"The district is argued to represent late 19th and early 20th century textile mill development in Georgia, with the mill companies controlling nearly every aspect of village life. It is significant in social history, community planning and development, industry, and architecture for its intact examples of mill village housing types such as shotguns, saltboxes, saddlebags and bungalows.","narrative":"Sargent is a Georgia mill village five miles northwest of Newnan, built around textile mills powered by Wahoo Creek. The Willcoxon Manufacturing Company began a cotton rope and yarn mill in 1866, and after it burned in 1906 a new mill opened in 1907, later known as Wahoo Manufacturing and then Arnall Mill. The district holds the mill complex, warehouses, a 1930s company store, a baseball field, water tanks, and well over a hundred houses. Most are simple frame dwellings rented to workers, including shotguns, saddlebags, saltboxes, bungalows and duplexes, arranged in the Old Town and New Town sections, with a separate area for African-American workers. The company controlled housing, shopping, farming and recreation. Its significance rests on how clearly the district shows this planned industrial community and its modest, standardized architecture. The Arnall Mill closed in 1986, though many retirees still live in the village.","period_of_significance":"c.1860-1964","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mill village house types (saddlebag, shotgun, pyramid cottage, saltbox, bungalow, I-house, central hallway cottage, Georgian cottage) and Dutch Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Textile mill operations ended in 1986 when the Bibb Company closed the Arnall Mill; the district still contains homes, a post office, a church and a mill complex, and some mill retirees still live in the village.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.108289-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000077.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000077/3055261113-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000077/3055261113-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rampway","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArnallMill.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rampway</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:ArnallMill.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207687","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141744232"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coweta-county/sargent-historic-district-05000077/"}