Industrial Athens: A virtual tour and stories of local working people
Schedule
Thu Sep 26 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2025 Baxter St, Athens, GA, United States, Georgia 30606 | Athens, GA
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Join the Heritage Room for an enthralling presentation and virtual tour of historic "Industrial Athens" presented by Dr. Jane McPherson. This presentation will take the audience on a virtual tour of industrial East Athens. We will begin with Daniel Easley’s pre-industrial mills at Cedar Shoals and explore the beginnings of Athens’ cotton milling at the Athens Factory. We will consider the lives of factory workers both before and after the Civil War, and consider the role of slavery and child labor in local mill histories. The presentation will focus on visual images, local geography, and stories of the factories and their people. This event is a part of the Fall 2024 series on Textiles, Labor, and the Law presented by the Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room. Dr. Jane McPherson is Associate Professor and Director of Global Engagement at UGA School of Social Work, which is located in the former Athens Factory. She uses her workplace as a base from which to explore and document the entwined local histories of cotton milling, labor, and the development of social welfare services in a project she calls “Complex Cloth.” https://complexcloth.org/
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Where is it happening?
2025 Baxter St, Athens, GA, United States, Georgia 30606Event Location & Nearby Stays:
