My wife and I visited a local park for some kayaking and hiking yesterday. It also happened to have preserved site on the river with the ruins of the New Manchester Manufacturing Company. It was a cotton mill that began making cloth for CS Uniforms, canteen covers, etc. during the Civil War. This resulted in it being torn down by Union forces when Sherman's troops came to visit and it was never rebuilt. It is now well out in the woods and requires a half mile walk to get to it. A local preservation group has done a really nice job of taking care of it. Thought I'd share a couple pictures of the mill remains sitting on Sweetwater Creek just west of Atlanta. Note on the bottom of the image of the story board how the workers there were uprooted sent to the Ohio Valley. This same thing happened to another mill in Roswell, GA.