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Description
Title
Celanese
Village
:
neighborhood
intersection
Creator(s)
West
,
Carroll
Van
Date
2011
Coverage
2010-2019
Property name
Celanese Village
Property type
District
Community Name
Rome, Floyd County, GA
Description
Color
photograph
of a
T
intersection
with a
one
story
brick
house
with
interior
brick
chimney
on the
corner
.
Historical Notes
Celanese
Village
is
a
community
located
in the
Riverside
district
of
Floyd
County
in the
Appalachian
foothills
of
Northwest
Georgia
,
just
north
of the
Rome
city
limits
.
It
was
first
constructed
in
1929
by
American
Chatillon
Corporation
, an
Italian
rayon
textile
manufacturing
company
backed
by
American
investors
. The
village
included
nearly
five
hundred
worker
houses
as
well
as
twenty-five
homes
for
management
. For the
plant
president
,
Chatillon
purchased
a
large
frame
house
that had
once
been
owned
by
Major
Ridge
, a
Cherokee
chief
who
signed
the
Treaty
of
New
Echota
,
selling
almost
all
that
remained
of
Cherokee
land
to the
federal
government
in
1835
. In
addition
to the
houses
, the
village
included
services
such
as a
school
,
clinic
,
general
store
,
pharmacy
, and
several
fire
houses
.
All
but the
fire
houses
were
built
of
brick
, a
unique
feature
for an
early
twentieth-century
southern
textile
mill
village
.
Workers
could
choose
from
five
different
home
plans
,
including
single-family
homes
of
three
to
six
rooms
and
efficiency
duplexes
.
All
of the
homes
came
with
indoor
plumbing
and
electricity
. In
1930
Chatillon
merged
with a
Belgian
producer
,
Tubize
, and
operated
as
Tubize-Chatillon
until
after
World
War
II
,
when
British
rayon
manufacturer
Celanese
Corporation
of
America
purchased
the
mill
complex
and
village
. In the
1950s
,
Celanese
allowed
workers
to
purchase
homes
in the
village
,
which
had
previously
been
maintained
and
leased
out
by the
company
.
Though
the
change
meant
that
workers
assumed
more
responsibility
for the
maintenance
of the
homes
and
grounds
of the
village
,
it
also
allowed
them to
build
on and
adjust
the
small
homes
to
suit
the
needs
of
growing
,
modern
families
.
Today
,
much
of the
village
is
still
standing
,
except
for the
management
houses
of
which
there
remain
only
two
. The
mill
ceased
operation
in
1976
, but
many
families
stayed
in the
village
for
many
years
.
Today
, the
residents
of the
community
are a
mixture
of
college
students
,
young
families
and
professionals
, and
long-term
residents
from
before
the
closing
of the
mill
. The
houses
have been
altered
over
the
years
and
adapted
to the
changing
needs
of
residents
, but on the
whole
still
largely
retain
their
historic
character
. The
community
is
immediately
adjacent
to the
Rome
bypass
, a
minor
league
baseball
stadium
,
restaurants
, the
Major
Ridge
home
(which
now
operates
as
Chieftains
Museum)
and a
large
city
park
with a
trail
leading
to
downtown
Rome
two
miles
away
.
Collection Name
Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH
Dwellings
Industrial towns
Planned communities
Subject-TGM
Houses
Neighborhoods
Type
Still image
Genre
Photograph
Processing notes
Electronic
file
Copyright status
Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution
Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use
Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
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