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German-Jewish immigrant Jacob Elsas built Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills here from 1881, creating the Cabbagetown mill village; its bitter 1914-15 strike unfolded amid the same Atlanta turmoil that produced the Leo Frank case and the murder of mill-worker Mary Phagan.
Jacob Elsas and the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 2023. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7503, -84.3681 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Geography of Race (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Women's Comfort Station, Oakland Cemetery, and Where Hood Watched The Battle Of Atlanta.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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