Please help the Chipley Historical Center. Georgia Gives Day is coming November 29, 2022. That interview, “A Visit to Pine Mountain, Georgia”, is now available as a podcast. Our Cindy Bowden recently spoke with Carolyn Hutcheson of Troy Public Radio about Chipley and Pine Mountain. If you see any incorrect or missing information on our website, let us know about it at here to buy a commemorative brick! Our heroes were nominated by their peers as people going above and beyond to assist others during the height of COVID! Who are the heroes behind the mask? Find out at the Heroes of Pine Mountain Exhibit now open in our new Outdoor Exhibit Garden. An original painting by Tony Treverton is also part of the exhibit. Photographs are, in part, courtesy of the Troup County Archives. Severts, a local archaeologist, has done much of the excavation work to learn more about the 74-year-history of the tract. Managed by Maxi Brooks, the mill ran on water turbine power from 1827-1902 and did a good business, even winning a medal for their rough cloth.Īrtifact donors include Patrick Severts, Nancy Williams, and Joanna Baxter, who all own portions of the land in reference. They sold their cloth to buyers in the East. The partners financed the building of a four-story cotton mill, which used locally sourced cotton and became a town of over 500 people. Molby, Alexander Ragland, and James Robertson forming Robertson, Leslie and Company. She sold her land to Maxi Brooks, who – with the power of Flint Shoals Creek – built a grist mill, distillery, and wool carding.īrooks became partners with David Beeman, Isaac Beeman, Thomas Leslie, T.
The Troup Factory area was settled starting in 1827, when Ann Anderson won Lot 240 in the land lottery. Often referred to by locals as “Troup Factory Hill,” most residents probably don’t realize that it refers to what was actually a mill. Pine Mountain spans more than 125 miles from Tennessee through Kentucky (Whitley, Bell, Harlan, Letcher, and Pike counties) to Virginia and forms the first of.
The exhibit features an in-depth historical perspective of Troup Factory Mill, a 19 th century cotton mill just a short drive north of Downtown Pine Mountain and the Chipley Historical Center near the Flat Shoals Creek bridge where U.
This fascinating story features a four-story cotton mill, a grist mill, a distillery, a blacksmith shop, and a home to more that 500 people. New exhibit! See our newest exhibition on “Troup Factory Mill” and its sudden disappearance. Our volunteers are a wealth of information and would love to help you research. Please stop by for a tour and view our exhibits which contain maps, artifacts, and histories. The goal is to create the finest genealogy and history center in West Central Georgia. It was established so that the historical documents, photographs and heritage of the area might be collected and preserved. The Chipley Historical Center is located in Pine Mountain, GA.
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