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Columbus Manufacturing Company, Thirty-second Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA
Summary
Significance: The mill was built to use electric power from the North Highlands dam of the Columbus Power Company which was built at the same time. The turbines were wired to motors which turned a rope drive in the mill. The combination of power transmission media is a meter of the state of the art electrical utilization in 1900-1910. Conversion from line shafting and belting to individual electric motor drive which began in 1934 is not yet complete.
Survey number: HAER GA-29
Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1919 Subsequent Work
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Date
1901
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
West Point Pepperell Manufacturing Company
Gordon, F B
Sharpe, David
Karfunkle, J B
Lupold, John S
Kimmelman, Barbara A
Location
Columbus (Ga.), 32.48517, -84.99139
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
