Category:Cotton Mills

This category covers cotton mills in the Wiregrass. While we today usually refer to one location as the mill or the [Location] Cotton Mill, historically individual cotton mill sites were referred to in the plural ie [Location] Cotton Mills. Nearly all of the cotton mills in the Wiregrass have been demolished. Currently only the Moultrie Cotton Mills survive. If you know of additional cotton mills within the Wiregrass region please submit them to us.

Alabama

  • Columbia Cotton Mills, Columbia, Henry County, AL (1892-19??)
  • Enterprise Cotton Mills, Enterprise, Coffee County, AL (1901- Demolished 19??)
  • Geneva Cotton Mills, Geneva, Geneva Cotton, AL (1924- Demolished 2014)
  • Ozark Cotton Mill Company, Ozark, Dale County, AL (1913- Demolished 199?)

Georgia

  • Albany Cotton Mills aka Flint River Cotton Mills, Albany, Dougherty County, GA (1909- Demolished 201?)
  • Fitzgerald Cotton Mills formerly Irwin Manufacturing Company, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, GA (1901- Closed 1963, Demolished 19??)
  • Moultrie Cotton Mills, Moultrie, Colquitt County, GA (1901- still in existence)
  • Pelham Manufacturing Co. aka Pelham Cotton Mills, Pelham, Mitchell County, GA (1899- Demolished 200?)
  • Poulan Cotton Mills, Poulan, Worth County, GA (1902- Demolished 19??)
  • South Georgia Cotton Mills, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia (18??-189?)
  • Strickland Cotton Mills aka Remerton Cotton Mills, Remerton, Lowndes County, GA (1899- Demolished 2013)
  • TIfton Cotton Mills, TIfton, Tift County, GA (1900- Demolished 2010)
  • Western Reserve Mills formerly Quitman Manufacturing Company formerly Atlantic and Gulf Mills, Brooks County, GA (1899- Demolished 199?)

Florida

Currently no cotton mills in the Wiregrass area of Florida have been found.

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