Elm City Cotton Mills
Built in 1905, located in land lot 142 of the 6th district. The charter bears the date of November 15, 1905, and enlisted a large number of contributors under the leadership of Fuller E. Callaway, Sr., as the directing genius. The following names are recorded in the charter: F. E. Callaway, C. V. Truitt, J. G. Truitt, S. H. Truitt, Roy Dallis, W. A. Holmes, A. T. Dallis, V. E. Dallis, George E. Dallis, Pike Brothers, E. G. Hood, J. H. Edmondson, Henry Banks, Sr., J. W. Johnston, Bradfield Drug Co., F. M. Ridley, H. R. Slack, J. C. Roper, J. M. Barnard, George W. Murphy, P. G. Awtry, J. L. Bradfield, H. D. Glanton, N. E. Marshburn, E. R. Bradfield, Sr., W. V. Gray, L. D. Mitchell, Pope F. Callaway, McCaine and Market, E. B. Clark, F. M. Longley, B. H. Seay, R. L. Adams, J. R. Hall, G. B. Heard, S. P. Smith, W. S. Davis, A. H. Cary, C. Y. Hall, J. R. Broome, W. L. Cleaveland, N. S. McCalley, J. M. Formby, W. J. Hardy, J. F. Market, J. Wid Freeman; Banks and Arnold of Coweta County, H. M. Atkinson, W. D. Brady, George M. Traylor, James Banks, A. E. Thornton, M. Frank, George W. Parrott, George Dole Wadley, S. P. O'Neal, J. H. Lane & Company. Elm City was also a cotton duck plant and has enjoyed a long term of prosperity under the skillful management of the superintendents, Ira B. Grimes and H. F. Shuford.
