Historic Atlanta - Fulton Cotton Mill
by Mark Tisdale
Title
Historic Atlanta - Fulton Cotton Mill
Artist
Mark Tisdale
Medium
Mixed Media - Watercolor - Acrylic - Digital
Description
Atlanta, like a lot of older American cities, is really a patchwork of cities, towns, and neighborhoods. One of those neighborhoods at the heart of old Atlanta was Cabbagetown, a mill village that was built for the workers at the Fulton Cotton Mills.
The Fulton Cotton Mills were very much a part of America's industrial era. Mills and villages like this had a long history in the 19th and 20th century before passing on and leaving relics of a bygone era.
The old Fulton Cotton Mill was built over 40 years beginning in 1881. And the mill operated into the 1970's before shuttering the factory and selling off the mill village to the former employees who called it home.
Today the old mill has seen re-use as a loft complex, but there's a timeless quality to this view from nearby Oakland Cemetery. There's a sense of the history of the area.
Based on photographs taken a decade ago. This is a mixture of watercolor and acrylic with finishing details done in Corel Painter.
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May 27th, 2013
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