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Chateau Elan, a winery and resort in Braselton, is modeled on a sixteenth-century chateau in France's Loire Valley. The winery, founded in 1981 by Donald and Nancy Panoz, produces a variety of wines from the native muscadine grape, as well as from the vinifera grape, a European species.
Image from Dave Morrison Photography
The muscadine grape, native to Georgia, is used in the production of several wines, including the award-winning Summer Wine, at Chateau Elan in Braselton.
Courtesy of Gerard Krewer
Heat 'N' Serve Shrimp is one of many seafood products sold by Brunswick-based King and Prince Seafood. The product was first developed at the company's research and development facility in the 1960s.
From The Story of King & Prince Seafood Corporation, by L. Faulkenberry
In 1924 Gerald Beach founded King Shrimp Company (later King and Prince Seafood), a seafood wholesaling enterprise based in Brunswick. He bought shrimp from fishermen in Thunderbolt to supplement his own catch for shipment to Chicago and New York City.
From The Story of King & Prince Seafood Corporation, by L. Faulkenberry
A freezer building for King and Prince Seafood, based in Brunswick, was built in 1987. Founded in 1924 as a seafood wholesaler, the company produces a variety of frozen food products for both the retail and restaurant markets.
From The Story of King & Prince Seafood Corporation, by L. Faulkenberry
In the loamy soil of south Georgia, pecans thrive. Though native to the region, pecan trees did not become a major crop until after the Civil War. Since the 1950s Georgia has led the nation in pecan production, and several businesses in the state, such as the South Georgia Pecan Company, have successfully capitalized on the crop.
Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The poultry industry in Georgia, one of the state's most important economic activities, produces 24.6 million pounds of chicken each year. Cagle's, an Atlanta-based company, is one of the top poultry producers in the world.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
The Roddenbery Hardware Company, pictured in 1936, was one of the operations managed by the W. B. Roddenbery Company. From left to right: Tom Herring, clerk; George Faulkner, clerk; Norman E. Pipkin, clerk; Eva Bell, bookkeeper; and Albert C. Roddenbery, manager.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Ellis Bros. Pecans, founded in Vienna in 1944, produces a variety of products from pecans, peanuts, peaches, and cotton. In 1992 the family-owned company received an award from the Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University.
Photograph by Clayton Turner, Shockoe Studios
The Ellis Bros. Pecans retail store, located off Interstate 75 in Dooly County, sells such items as nuts, candies, preserves, and relishes to travelers. The original recipes for many of these products were created by Irene Ellis, who founded the company with her husband, Marvin, in 1944.
Image from Lee Coursey
A worker processes milk at the Cloverdale Dairy creamery in Atlanta. The facility later became known as Atlanta Dairies, which was purchased in 1993 by Parmalat Dairies. Date of photograph unknown.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #ful0184.
In 2005 the state's 81,000 cows produced about 1.4 billion pounds of milk. The commercial dairy industry in Georgia grew rapidly after the Civil War and remains an important sector of the state's economy.
Image from UGA CAES/Extension
Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville produces a variety of goat and cow cheeses, including its Green Hill cow's milk cheese. The dairy industry in Georgia generated $254 million in 2000.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.
Cows are milked by milking machines in H. H. Cobb Sr.'s dairy, circa 1921 in Oconee County. The introduction of milking machines, as well as refrigerators, automobiles, and tractors, promoted the growth of dairy farms around the state during the 1920s.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Cattle at the Cedar Grove Dairy, owned by Julius Wesley Clark, in DeKalb County. Although dairy herds in Georgia declined between World War I and the Great Depression, they increased rapidly during World War II. Date of photograph unknown.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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J. H. Hooks's dairy in Washington County, pictured circa 1925, specialized in raising Jersey cows. As the dairy business during the 1920s became increasingly industrialized, concerns over health and sanitation led to legislation requiring inspections and the pasteurization of milk.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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An employee works in the milkroom of an Eatonton dairy in 1952. New advances in dairy technology during the 1950s allowed for higher levels of milk production and more sanitary conditions in the industry.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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W. C. Bradley, of the W. C. Bradley Company, invested in the Columbus Iron Works early in the twentieth century. During the 1940s, the Bradley Company initiated the production of charcoal grills at the iron works to replace the obsolete potbellied stoves formerly produced at the facility.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record, #HAER GA, 108-COLM, 22-25.
The W. C. Bradley Company, based in Columbus, was the state's nineteenth-largest private company in 2005, according to Georgia Trend magazine. The company comprises manufacturing, sales, and real estate divisions.
Image from W.C. Bradley Co.
A warehouse of the W. C. Bradley Company was located on Front Avenue in Columbus, circa 1960. The company began as a cotton-factoring business in the nineteenth century and expanded into numerous other areas, including fertilizer manufacturing, banks, and iron, during the twentieth century.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record, #HAER GA,108-COLM,23-9.
A delivery man stands beside his Sunbeam bread truck in the 1940s. The Thomasville-based Flowers Baking Company began making Sunbeam bread in 1942, when it joined the Quality Bakers of America cooperative that produced the bread. The Sunbeam logo was created by the cooperative that same year.
Courtesy of Flowers Foods
The Flowers Baking Company, known today as Flowers Foods, was founded in 1919 by two brothers, William Howard Flowers and Joseph Flowers. Located in Thomasville, the bakery shipped baked goods to customers in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida during the 1920s.
Courtesy of Flowers Foods
Early Sunbeam bread packaging featuring the "Little Miss Sunbeam" logo. First introduced in 1942, it quickly became one of America's most well-known logos and is still found today on Sunbeam's packaging.
Courtesy of Flowers Foods
The Nature's Own brand of bread is produced by Flowers Foods, a bakery founded in Thomasville in 1919. The company also produces the well-known Sunbeam and Cobblestone Mill brands, in addition to a line of snack cakes under the brand name Tesoritos.
Courtesy of Flowers Foods
Jesse Jewell, founder of J. D. Jewell, Incorporated, is widely credited with making Gainesville the "poultry capital of the world" through his pioneering use of vertical integration. Jewell was also a leader within the wider poultry industry, serving as president for both the National Broiler Council and the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association.
Courtesy of Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia
Henry Tift's sawmill, circa 1900. After the success of the sawmill, Tift expanded his business interests by establishing the Tifton Cotton Mill and the Bank of Tifton.
Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Albertype Co, Photographs.
A successful businessman and developer, Henry H. Tift founded the south Georgia town of Tifton.
Courtesy of Coastal Plain Experiment Station
This locomotive, long used at the Tift sawmill, was said to have seen service in the Civil War before it was bought by Henry Tift.
Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Wesley Thomas Hargrett Collection.
The lumberyard at Henry Tift's sawmill at Tifton, around 1900. Tift established his sawmill at the highest ground in the area.
Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Albertype Co, Photographs.
D. W. Brooks observes the chicken processing line at the Gold Kist factory in Canton, circa 1978. Brooks led Gold Kist, an Atlanta-based farm cooperative, for forty-seven years.
