R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company

by Emily Kimbell

Overview

Founded in 1854 in Coweta County, Georgia, the R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company quickly became one of the most influential businesses of its time. R.D. Cole started the company in a little woodshop to make sashes and doors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467107792
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/11/2022
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dr. Emily Kimbell is the director of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society and McRitchie-Hollis Museum. This book's photographs, taken from the familial archives of descendants of the Cole family, span the company's 114-year-old history. Duke Cole Blackburn Jr., a Newnan native and sixth-generation member of the Cole family, provides the foreword.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Acknowledgments 7

Introduction 8

1 The First 50 Years 11

2 The Founding Family 29

3 A Period of Growth 49

4 Impact on the Local Community 71

5 Working at R.D. Cole 95

6 The End of an Era 113

About the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society 127