Panel War - Villa Rice, Georgia
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YoSam.
N 33° 43.862 W 084° 55.052
16S E 692931 N 3734282
There are several murals across the walls here, each depicting a different part of the cities history.
Waymark Code: WM10VRC
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/28/2019
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County of mural: Carroll County
Location of mural: Mian St. walls visible in amphitheater, On Main Street Villa Rica offices
This one depict the images for town, but why the artist named this panel "War" has me guessing
...there is no text with any of the 5 murals...but they are a collage of events & people..
This one shows the textile industry, and boy on an aircraft, Trail Depot, Greyhound Buss (freedom riders)...The CCC some veterans....
"On May 4, 1961, The Freedom Riders passed through Villa Rica. This is the same day their bus was burned in Anniston, Alabama. At the time the bus station was in the Kinney Building on South Carroll Road." ~ City of Villa Rica
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Banning Mill, initially known as Bowen's Mill, was founded along Snake Creek near what is now the town of Whitesburg. Under the Bowens and later owners William Amis and Arthur Hutcheson, this factory offered an alternative to agricultural employment. By 1890 Mandeville Mills at Carrollton was also offering textile work to local residents and soon eclipsed the older mill at Banning. Mandeville Mills closed in 1953, but by that time Southwire Company had been created to manufacture copper wire and wire-related products. From 1978 until 2001 Sony Music (originally CBS Records) operated the largest recorded-music manufacturing plant in the world at Carrollton. Although the company ceased its manufacturing operations in the county in 2001, its warehousing and distribution operations are still active. In 2002 Wal-Mart opened a huge distribution center just north of Carrollton as headquarters for its online ordering business." ~ Georgia Encyclopedia