Six Industrial Giants - GHM 022-5 - Carroll Co., GA.
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N 33° 34.788 W 085° 04.389
16S E 678824 N 3717230
Six Industrial Giants marker located at the City Hall at Tanner and Newton Sts, Carrollton, GA.
Waymark Code: WM3R7P
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2008
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Six Industrial Giants
Born within a few miles of each other were six people who are recognized as giants of industry in the southeast. Asa G. Candler of Villa Rica was founder and first president of Coca-Cola; Sam Candler Dobbs, president of Coca-Cola; Arthur Acklen, president of Coca-Cola; Warren Sewell, father of men's clothing manufacturing in the south. D.W. Brooks started the Georgia Cotton Cooperative which became Gold Kist and Roy Richards developed Southwire into one of the largest wire companies in the world.
GHM 022-5 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1983
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: GHM 022-5
Date: 1983
Sponsor: Georgia Historic Marker
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