{"nrhp_refnum":"76000623","name":"Cabbagetown District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Boulevard, Pearl St., Memorial Dr., and railroad tracks","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.74983594100007,"lon":-84.36621082819434,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic textile mill village in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, next to Oakland Cemetery. It centers on the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills complex and the worker housing built around it from 1881 onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the oldest and largest industrial concerns and settlements in Atlanta. It was the site of the first cotton mill to make cotton bags standardized in size, and one of the longest-running factory-supported villages in the South. The mill company built and maintained the housing and provided services for its workers.","narrative":"Cabbagetown is a textile mill village close to downtown Atlanta, built around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. The company began in 1881 on the site of a former rolling mill, chosen for its rail access and water supply. Mill buildings of five-story brick in a provincial neo-Romanesque style went up in stages between 1895 and 1922. Because the area was sparsely settled, the owners built housing for workers. The oldest surviving houses stand on Reinhardt Street and date from 1886 to 1892. Later streets hold shotgun cottages, duplexes, bungalows and Victorian-influenced homes on small, narrow lots. The mill supplied lawns, security, medical, dental, library and nursery services until the Elsas family sold it in 1957. The district was listed for its role as the site of the first mill making standardized cotton bags and for being one of the South's longest-lived factory-supported villages. Founder Jacob Elsas is credited with seeing the sense in processing cotton locally.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Provincial neo-Romanesque mill buildings; mill village housing including shotgun cottages, bungalows and Victorian-influenced cottages","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked deteriorated and altered. The district is occupied, and two of the three original mill buildings were still in use when nominated. Later additional documentation describes rehabilitation of the mill complex.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.742352-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000623/60c5ff979d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000623/60c5ff979d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"John Ramspott","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cabbagetown_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ramspott</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cabbagetown_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208116","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbagetown,_Atlanta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686603"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/cabbagetown-district-76000623/"}