New Manchester Mill at Sweetwater Creek

Influenced by the Roswell Mill 30 miles to the east, Col. James Rogers and Charles McDonald, a former Georgia governor, built a cotton mill in 1845 on a tract of land that would later become a village called New ...

Sweetwater

Home of Major John Brahan, veteran War of 1812.

Major General, Alabama Militia, who owned 4,000 acres here. Built of bricks made on the place, marble mantels imported from Italy, boxwood hedge from London. Named for spring nearby.

Federal and Confederate quarters ...