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Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District

Coordinates: 34°21′00″N 82°56′10″W / 34.35000°N 82.93611°W / 34.35000; -82.93611
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Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District
House on Liberty Circle
Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District is located in Georgia
Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District
LocationAlong Liberty Circle, Jackson, and Webb Sts., Hartwell, Georgia
Coordinates34°21′00″N 82°56′10″W / 34.35000°N 82.93611°W / 34.35000; -82.93611
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built1894 and on
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, Vernacular Victorian
MPSHartwell MRA
NRHP reference No.86002064[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 11, 1986

The Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district in Hartwell, Georgia. The district included 47 contributing buildings along Liberty Circle, Jackson, and Webb Streets in Hartwell, including Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, and vernacular Victorian architecture.[1]

It includes multiple "two-family, wood-framed, weatherboarded housing units with their simple shed-roofed porches and double entrances" which are "typical of much of Georgia's mill housing. The one-story and two-story variations on what is basically the same housing unit are frequently found, as in the district, in the same mill village in order to provide a variety of living spaces for different size families. The single-family brick bungalows in the district, built in the early 20th century for supervisors and their families, serve to document the different living accommodations frequently provided within a mill village for mill management. The few small Victorian houses absorbed into the mill village as it was constructed contrast with the unrelenting sameness of the housing built by the mill for its workers. Although not much larger than some of the mill housing units, these small cottages have modest individual touches, an L-shaped plan with a bay window in one, a gable-end sunburst design in another."[2]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District". National Park Service. 1985. Retrieved November 17, 2017. With photos from 1985.