Georgia Archives - From Field to Mill Town: Cotton & Textile Culture in Georgia
Friday, March 26th, 2021
On Saturday, April 3, the Georgia Archives will present a free online symposium, From Field to Mill Town: Cotton and Textile Culture in Georgia.
The symposium will be available to the public through Microsoft Teams. The link to the live event is: https://tinyurl.com/ygqjnjve
At 9:30 a.m. Jane Burdette (Silvertown Historic Preservation Project), Jamesan Gramme (Director, Thomaston-Upson Archives), and Chris Jackson (Historic Preservation Specialist, WLA Studio) will present “Silvertown: From the Center of Tire Cord Production to a Local Treasure.”
At 10:30 a.m. Heather Meadows’ (graduate student, Master’s in Heritage Preservation, Georgia State University) presentation will be “Folk Architecture in Whittier Mills Village.”
At 11:15 a.m., Dr. James Hoogerwerf (Delta Airlines captain (retired), PhD in History of Technology, Auburn University) will present “Huff Daland Dusters, Macon, GA, and the Move to Monroe, LA.”
There will be three presentations at 11:45 a.m. on the “West GA Textile Heritage Trail: Documenting and Interpreting the History of the Textile Industry.” The first will be “Establishing the West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail” by Keri Adams and Dr. Ann McCleary (both with the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia (UWG)). Following Adams and McCleary’s presentation will be “Interpreting the Textile Industry” with Jarrett Craft (graduate research assistant, UWG), Jamie Bynum (graduate research assistant, UWG)and Alyssa Colquitt (undergraduate research assistant). The final presentation will be “Mapping the Textile Industry” with Jamie Bynum, Jessica Sinel (undergraduate research assistant), and Dr. Andy Walter (Professor of Geography at UWG).
The link for the live event will also be posted on the Georgia Archives’ Facebook page on Saturday Morning, April 3. Microsoft Teams currently supports these browsers: Internet Explorer II, Microsoft Edge, RS2 or later, the latest version of Chrome, and the latest version of Firefox.
If you plan on using an iPhone or tablet, you may need to download the Teams app.
The virtual symposium will be uploaded to our YouTube channel “Georgia Archives.” To be notified when videos are uploaded to our YouTube channel, go to our channel and press subscribe. It is free.
The Georgia Archives is a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The Georgia Archives identifies, collects, manages, preserves, provides access to, and publicizes records and information of Georgia and its people, and assists state and local government agencies with their records management.
