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Around the 1890s Dalton's Catherine Evans Whitener revived hand-tufting, stitching cotton yarn into bedspreads. The cottage craft spread among local women into a chenille industry that mechanized into broadloom carpet, making Dalton the 'Carpet Capital of the World.'
Our Textile Legacy is a historical marker in Dalton, Whitfield County. It is one of 64 historical markers documented in Whitfield County, among 106 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.7697, -84.9672 near Dalton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Carpet Technology (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Joseph E. Johnston Memorial, The Mechanization of the Bedspread Industry, and Western and Atlantic Depot.
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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