Discoveries.........

What a wonderful day!
The weather was perfect!
If you don't mind the pollen that is. Boy, it's so weird to see yellow clouds flying over the street (pine pollen) Everything is yellow, everyone is sneezing and I have a perpetual headache.

We went and did some grocery shopping this morning. We also went and checked out a little neighborhood in Cartersville I wasn't familiar with.
Boo-boo's Daddy found a house to rent there, and I wanted to check it out.

I found out some neat history about this area.

I copied/pasted this:

Though Edward McClain was born May 30, 1861 in Greenfield, Ohio, and lived his entire life there, his impact on Bartow County remains today. McClain came to Cartersville in 1903, the result of his search for "the most perfect cotton mill location in the world." He had advertised in an Atlanta newspaper for a tract of land stating the advantages the site should possess. One of the respondents, a citizen of Cartersville, told him that the place he sought "would not be found short of Heaven", but nevertheless there was a site near Cartersville which would nearly fill the bill. McClain inspected several locations throughout the south, selected Cartersville, and purchased over 600 acres. The mill was to be used primarily for the manufacture of cloth for The American Pad & Textile Company, founded by McClain in Greenfield in 1881, and producing substantially all the horse collar pads used in the United States and Canada.

The new American Textile Company soon began operation in Cartersville; it included an entire village (Atco) for employees . Over the next 25 years as automobiles replaced horses, new products were made. An addition was added to the mill in 1927, doubling the plant's capacity and employing about 450 people. Two years later, the plant was sold to Goodyear.

When McClain came to Cartersville, the area was mostly agricultural with an urgent need to bolster its economy by expanding into manufacturing. This was achieved through the payrolls of The American Textile Company and later Goodyear. Thousands of employees and descendants owe much to Edward McClain. He died on May 3, 1934 in Greenfield and is buried there.

For those of you would would like to read more about McClain read this:

http://www.highland-ohio.com/mcclain's%20businesses.htm


I had never been to this part of town. Didn't know about the factory that was/is there. The huge brick building is still standing, with huge and beautiful trees on the property. This was a complete self contained little town, where everyone who worked at the factory lived in one of the small houses built around it.
I was aware of the huge cemetery on the hill. Bugs and I drove through it one day, we both have a morbid curiosity for cemeteries. On the opposite side of the street is the big "dump" or the recycle center.
Anyway, this Atco place is kind of interesting. We drove through the narrow streets, there are about a hundred tiny wooden houses. No driveways, no garages. All the houses have a back alley and a nice plot of land. The place has a flavor of it's own. Kind of hard to explain. But to me it feels like the folks who lived there a century ago are still around in spirit. It must have been quite a place to live.

The factory is empty, of course and has to be a bit spooky inside, especially at night. I wonder if its haunted :>) To me the building has a curious flavor to it, so big, with all the windows boarded up, but still alive somehow....

I am surprised that this area hasn't caught the eye of some smart entrepreneur. I mean, I could envision that building as a loft/apartment complex, or a senior citizen home.
The homes are not worth a whole lot, but most of them looked well cared for, albeit very very simple and plain. Daddy is only going to be paying about $600 rent for a two bedroom house, newly renovated too. Lucky kid!

I sincerely hope Daddy will be happy there, and that his life will turn around. At least he now has a decent place for Boo-boo to stay.

Anyway, it was a pleasant day. Boo took a little nap once we got home, and after lunch we took our daily stroll around the neighborhood.
She went to bed at six and Bugs got here about 20 minutes ago, she was early for a change, seems to be learning to DELEGATE!!! Atta girl!!!

My sister sent me some wonderful pictures of my parents; herself and her son Tim, who is visiting from Spain. My father looks GREAT!

So all in all, a day to treasure.

Which I will

SGMKJ!