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404-931-6647. Local Pickup. Available in Atlanta. Back to the top. Georgia Crafted is the #1 one-stop shop for Georgia made products! We carry over 200 products made by small local makers around Georgia and can help you with all your individual and corporate gifting needs. About Us.
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About us – Georgia Crafted. About us. Georgia Crafted is the #1 one-stop shop for Georgia-made products! Georgia Crafted was born one evening back in May 2013 over a glass of wine and a great discussion about our passion for shopping local. Recognizing that most people love the idea of “shopping local”, but don’t necessarily know how to ...
Georgia is known for many things—the world’s largest aquarium, America’s favorite soda, sweet and juicy peaches and a burgeoning film scene, to name a few. Add to the list: artisanal, craft food products made from locally-sourced ingredients sure to please any palette. Take a look at four of our favorites:
Candy & Desserts. Fresh, locally-made using Georgia Grown ingredients. You'll love candy and desserts like pralines, pies, glazed pecans and more. Learn More.
- Silk Production
- The Emergence of Cotton Production
- Civil War and Its Aftermath
- New South Expansion
- Steam-Power Technology
- Mill Villages
- Twentieth-Century Expansion
- Racial Segregation
- Labor Unrest
- World War II Years
In the seventeenth century, silk became a fashionable fabric for the European upper classes, and England hoped to compete with the thriving silk industries in France and Italy. The colonial trustees developed a plan for textile production in the Georgia colony, and in 1734 General James Edward Oglethorpe established the Trustee Garden in Savannah f...
The cotton ginwas invented in the 1790s by Eli Whitneyat Catharine Greene’s Mulberry Grove plantation in Chatham County.This labor saving tool gradually transformed cotton into a profitable crop, and cotton cultivation increased rapidly across the state during the nineteenth century. White planters, in turn, used enslaved Black workers to plant and...
When the Civil War(1861-65) broke out, the mills that remained in business began manufacturinguniforms, blankets, and other supplies for Confederate troops. With much of its manpower depleted by the army, the trained workforce became mostly white women. By 1864 the expertise and loyalty of the mill operatives was perceived as problematic to the Uni...
During the 1870s and 1880s, Henry W. Grady of the Atlanta Constitution encouraged industrialization in the state and implied that civic responsibility required the construction of a cotton mill in every Georgia town. Community leaders, fueled by Grady’s rhetoric and a series of cotton expositions held during the 1880s in Atlanta, took up a new rall...
During the 1830s, the technology for powering mills with steam became available, but the use of steam did not gain popularity in Georgia until the 1850s. Steam power—created by burning wood or coal—freed mills from their reliance on waterpower and allowed owners to situate their enterprises in urban areas other than those along the fall line. In th...
The mill village, part of a family labor arrangement widely used by Georgia mill operators, was adapted from a system developed around 1810 by Samuel Slater, a New England mill owner. In Slater’s system, entire families were employed at the mill and provided with a company-owned house. The northern businessmen who invested in southern mills liked t...
After 1900 the mill boom continued in Georgia, with companies branching out to other areas and to the production of new types of textiles. By 1908 the Bibb Manufacturing Company of Macon was operating seven mills that produced a variety of cotton products, including hosiery, carpet yarn, twine, spooled cotton, and tire fabric for the budding automo...
For African Americans, life in the Jim Crow South meant limited job opportunities. The textile industry in Georgia was strictly segregated; Black male workers held only menial jobs at the factories and were not permitted to live within the mill villages. Black women had virtually no role in mill work before the 1950s. They were employed by mill fam...
With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, smaller Georgia mills were forced to shut down, leading to significant unemployment for many mill families. In 1933 passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, required mill operators to follow rules related both to hours in a workday and t...
When the United States entered World War II, wartime contracts brought renewed profitability to mills. Once again they were able to hire more workers. Different fibers, such as nylon, went into production for troop use. The American Chatillon Corporation, an Italian-owned company located in the Romearea, produced synthetic silk for parachutes. The ...
Shop for specialty foods and made-in-Georgia gifts at Rutabaga's Market & Cafe in downtown Hampton. You'll find the store's inspiration, LeAnn's Gourmet Zucchini Relish, which gives a burst of flavor to any dish, as well as gourmet dips, spreads, olive oil blends and more.
Jul 11, 2018 · Learn the history and the processes behind more than 200 Georgia-made products and gifts baskets that include gourmet foods, souvenirs, collegiate, and convention gifts that proudly represent our ...
