{"nrhp_refnum":"85003332","name":"Brannon, W. A., Store-Moreland Knitting Mills","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Moreland","county":"Coweta County","state":"GA","lat":33.285389630000054,"lon":-84.76961075799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of four attached brick buildings on Main Street in Moreland, Coweta County, Georgia: an 1894 two-story store, a 1904 warehouse, a 1937 enclosed alleyway and an 1891 cotton warehouse, built for merchant W. A. Brannon.","why_significant":"The complex is significant in architecture as a good example of a late 19th-century general store in a small commercial center, with the buildings adapted for later mill use. It is significant in commerce as Moreland's trading center from 1894 to 1920. It is significant in industry as the site of the Moreland Hosiery Mills and then the Moreland Knitting Mills, the town's only manufacturing plant for forty years.","narrative":"Four connected brick buildings on Main Street in Moreland, Georgia, record the town's shift from a trading center to a mill town. Merchant W. A. Brannon built a cotton warehouse in 1891 and a two-story store in 1894, erected by R. D. Cole and Co. of Newnan with brick he manufactured himself. A second brick warehouse followed in 1904, and an alleyway joining the buildings was enclosed in 1937. The store sold general merchandise and served as Moreland's trading center until 1920. After Brannon's business failed amid poor cotton conditions, the property became the Moreland Hosiery Mills in 1920 and the Moreland Knitting Mills in 1927. The knitting mill employed as many as 100 people and operated until about 1968, making it the town's only manufacturing plant for forty years. The store keeps its original counter, freight elevator and doors, while skylights and new openings reflect its conversion to a mill. The town of Moreland received the property in 1983.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"R.D. Cole Co. of Newnan, Georgia","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the town of Moreland, which received it as a gift in 1983; the form lists it as occupied, in good condition and altered, with civic use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.536884-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85003332.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207653","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coweta-county/brannon-w-a-store-moreland-knitting-mills-85003332/"}