Factory Shoals c. 1820
This area represents one of Georgia’s earliest experiences in advanced water-powered industrialization technologically unsurpassed in the U.S.
Archaeological remains of 5 mills ranging from large textile factories to small grist mills exist within a one mile section of the river.
The post office for the thriving environs was Webbville, 1832, later Newton Factory, 1846, with a population of 600 by 1860.
Sherman’s march through Newton County, 1864, the flood of 1881 and other economic forces fore-shortened the post-bellum prosperity of this remarkable development.
Marker is on Unnamed Park Road 0.2 miles south of Newton Factory Bridge Road, in the median.
Courtesy hmdb.org
