{"nrhp_refnum":"87002134","name":"Clarkdale Historic District","other_names":["Clarkdale","Coats &amp","Clark Thread Mill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Powder Springs-Austell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clarkdale","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.82908827550003,"lon":-84.65367533513478,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned industrial community in Clarkdale, Cobb County, Georgia, in the western Atlanta metropolitan area. It was built in the early 1930s as a thread mill complex with an adjoining mill village on about 90 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Clarkdale is an intact early 20th-century example of a Georgia company town, with its mill, housing, and social and recreational facilities laid out under a master plan. It reflects community planning practices and contains notable industrial and domestic architecture in a landscaped setting. It is believed to be among the last such planned industrial communities developed in Georgia.","narrative":"Clarkdale is a planned mill community in Cobb County, Georgia, built in the early 1930s when the Clark Thread Company moved its American thread-making operations from New Jersey. The district combines a three-story brick thread mill, completed in 1931, with its warehouse, boiler house, water tower and office, and a village of about 100 one-story wood-framed houses on curving, tree-lined streets. Houses, mostly single-family and duplex types, were built in 1931 and 1932 to a company master plan. The village also has a 1934 community center, an athletic field, 1935 garages, and a park with 1936 tennis courts and a pool site. The district was listed for its community planning, architecture, landscape architecture and industry. It is regarded as an intact example of the Southern company town and possibly one of the last planned industrial communities in Georgia. The mill has since been rehabilitated for new use.","period_of_significance":"1931-1936","architect_builder":"J. E. Sirrine Company (engineers); Fisk Carter (mill village builder); A. K. Adams (mill builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th-20th Century Revivals: Colonial, Tudor","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill has been rehabilitated, with new interior subdivisions, an atrium and parking areas. The village houses remain in residential use, and some have been re-sided or altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.050586-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87002134.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002134/626da0a06e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002134/626da0a06e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarkdale_First_Baptist_Church,_Clarkdale_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarkdale_First_Baptist_Church,_Clarkdale_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207571","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34927738"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/clarkdale-historic-district-87002134/"}