Sweetwater Manufacturing Company, New Manchester, Georgia 1849-1857.
Sold and re-named New Manchester Manufacturing Company, 1857-1864.
Slave labor made all the bricks, dug the millrace and built the mill.
Of the many photographs on record, none picture any person of color.
command and General William T. Sherman’s march to the sea.
american tragedy; ruins, where gladiators razed the grave to free lions.
halve the portrait. questions loom of sweetwater’s past and the fabric of her story.
winds have scattered her ashes yet the acrid scent of her spray remains.