Kimbell

R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 128 Seiten
ISBN 1467107794
EAN 9781467107792
Veröffentlicht April 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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Beschreibung

"Founded in 1854 in Coweta County, Georgia, the R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company quickly became one of the most influentional businesses of its time. R.D. Cole started the company in a little woodshop to make sashes and doors. The company expanded and became an instrumental player in the manufacturing sector, building sawmills, cornmills and engines as well as constructing several high-profile buildings and homes. By the 1890s, the organization was the second-largest water tower manufacturer in the country... The. R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company represents a 'rags-to-riches' story of a company that started as a small, personal endeavor and eventually became of the the most profitable companies in the South."--Back cover.

Portrait

Dr. Emily Kimbell is the director of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society and McRitchie-Hollis Museum. This book's photographs, taken from the familial archives of descendants of the Cole family, span the company's 114-year-old history. Duke Cole Blackburn Jr., a Newnan native and sixth-generation member of the Cole family, provides the foreword.

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