My Family and the Lindale Mill

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In the late 1800s my great-great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson Green, moved he and his family to Lindale, Georgia. Andrew Jackson Green moved from Ellijay, Georgia to Lindale, Georgia, because there was a new textile mill in town. This new textile mill was looking for employees and Andrew Jackson Green went there looking for a job. When my great-great-grandfather moved to the new mill town he found a job immediately. Since that time, that textile mill has employed four generations of my family. The lives of the four generations of my family entirely revolved around the town in which they lived. The Mill in Lindale, Georgia offered my family great health resources, spiritual avenues, and practical amenities. Doctors were one of the great health resources that the Lindale Mill offered my family. One of the doctors that served the Lindale area was Dr. J.N. Cheney. Dr. Cheney started practice in 1916 in the clinic that was built at the mill. Dr. Cheney made house calls to the homes of mill employees with a horse and buggy that was driven by Peg-leg Joe (Gammon 30). After Dr. Cheney finished serving as the mill doctor in 1917 he was soon replaced. Dr. S.R. Methvin practiced medicine from 1923 to 1945 (Gammon 30). Cheney truly cared for the people of the Lindale Mill. Dr. Methvin returned to his farm in Sylvester, Georgia, and five years after his retirement he passed away in 1950 (Gammon 30). The doctors that served the Lindale community operated in the Mill Clinic. The Mill Clinic was a small room that was outfitted with a scale, operating chair, blood pressure monitor and other health related tools (Plate 108). This clinic was a place where the people could come and seek medical help when they needed it. The nurses wore long dre... ... middle of paper ... ...f my family members, would be radically different today if it were not for the Lindale Mill. Works Cited Combined Choirs. 1964. A History of First Baptist Church Lindale, Georgia. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 1-68. Print. Fortenberry, Bill. “Star Still Shines.” Rome News Tribune 20 December 1999: A Print. Gammon, Polly. A History of Lindale. Rome: The Art Department of Rome, 1997. Print. A History of First Baptist Church Lindale, Georgia. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print. Jackson, M.L. Lindale. Rome: Commercial Printing Company, 1930. Print. Lindale Bible Class. N.d. Lindale. Rome: Commercial Printing, 1930. N. pag. Print. Plate 101. N.d. A History Of Lindale. Rome: Art Department of Rome, 1997. XXXVIII. Print. Plate 108. N.d. A History Of Lindale. Rome: Art Department of Rome, 1997. XL. Print. Plate 129. 1937. A History Of Lindale. Rome: Art Department of Rome, 1997. XLVI. Print.

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