Chicopee Building 8 in Athens, Georgia

Chicopee Building 8 in Athens is a university building, East Broad Street 1185.

House Number
1185
Street
East Broad Street
Building Type
university building
Operator
University of Georgia

Tourist information centers

  • Park Map – approx. 450 ft.
  • Dudley Park, Firefly & Greenway Trails – approx. 500 ft.
  • The Millstone, Grist Mills: Cornmeal and Flour – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Making Things In The Mill: Waterwheel To Product. Many different products were manufactured in the Athens mills, but the mills all worked in a similar way. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Making Things In The Mill: Textiles. Weaving fabric required very skilled workers. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Mill Products: Lumber, Grist, And Ginning. Athens’ first settlers used the huge forests and fertile slil of the area tk build their homes and provide food and clothing materials. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Mill Products: Weaponry. The Cook brothers came to Athens to manufacture guns for the Confederate Army. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Making Things In The Mill: Sawing. Coming to the sawmill with felled trees, the settlers would leave with sawn timber to build their houses, barns and furniture. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Making Things In The Mill: Weaponry. Water provided the power to saw, bore, mill, forge, cast and polish high quality rifles, carbines, and bayonets at the Cook & Brother Armory during the Civil War. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Making Things In The Mill: Textiles. Making textiles from raw cotton requires several steps. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Water Power: Waterwheels. Up until 1918 the textile mills along the river were powered directly by water using turbine waterwheels. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Mill Products. Threads, cords and ropes manufactured at the Athens Manufacturing Company. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Water Power. When using a creek or river to power a mill, water is channeled along a man-made headrace to direct it to the waterwheel. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Water Power: Water And Gravity. The force of gravity pulls us towards the ground. This force also pulls downhill, and provides power to do work. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Dudley Park, Firefly & Greenway Trails – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Mill Products. Threads, cords and ropes producedthe the Athens Manufacturing Company. – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • Athens Gets Connected: Railroad Trestles. The Georgia Rail Road crossed the Oconee River into Athens in 1883. – approx. 0.2 mi.

Bus stops

  • Chicopee OB – approx. 300 ft.
  • Chicopee – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • East Broad Street at North Poplar Street Outbound – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • 1st and MLK-Chicopee Inbound – approx. 0.1 mi.
  • East Broad Street and Willow Street Outbound – approx. 0.2 mi.
  • East Broad Street and Willow Street; E Broad and Willow St – approx. 0.2 mi.
  • Vine St at Vine Cir – approx. 0.2 mi.
  • East Broad Street at South Peter Street – approx. 0.2 mi.

Streets nearby

Mulberry Street
Park Map
350 ft
Cook & Brother Plaza
Mill Products, Mill Products: Weaponry, Mill Products: Lumber, Grist, And Ginning, Making Things In The Mill: Waterwheel To Product, Water Power, Making Things In The Mill: Textiles, Water Power: Water And Gravity, Water Power: Waterwheels, Making Things In The Mill: Weaponry, Making Things In The Mill: Sawing, Dudley Park, Firefly & Greenway Trails
0.1 mi
East Broad Street
East Broad Street at Derby Street, Traffic E Broad at The Foundation Apt, East Broad and Dublin Street, East Broad Street at South Peter Street, Blue Sky Bar, Mr. Haircut, Agora Vintage, Lions Vape, Dooley's Bar & Grill, Bubble Cafe, East Broad Street and Willow Street; E Broad and Willow St, East Broad Street and Willow Street Outbound, Reddy Urgent Care, Canyons, Cellphone & Computer Repair, Truist, Truist Dawg, The Arch, Chicopee OB, Buddha Bar, Porterhouse Grill, Empourium Rooftop and Lounge, Cloud 9 Smoke & Vape, The Double Barrel, Duke's & Dottie's, Osteria Athena, Chick-fil-A, Broad and Lumpkin Outbound, Chipotle, Stoner’s Pizza, Mother Phở, Bel Jean Copy & Print, Queen Tea, Wells Fargo, UGA Arch (Downtown Athens), Leigh Ann Barnes, The Place, Target
0.1 mi
Herman Street
0.1 mi
North Poplar Street
East Broad Street at North Poplar Street Outbound
0.1 mi
South Poplar Street
Oconee School
0.1 mi
First Street
1st and MLK-Chicopee Inbound, 1st Street at 4th Street Strickland Corner Outbound, 1st Street at Wateroak Street and Odd Street Outbound, 3rd St at 1st St Corner
0.2 mi
Braswell Drive
0.2 mi
North Oconee River Greenway
North Oconee River Greenway, The Millstone, Grist Mills: Cornmeal and Flour, Chicopee, College Avenue Trailhead, River Overlook Civil War Defenses, Hanna Manufacturing Co. Baseball Bats and Railroads, Oak Street at Poplar Street Outbound, Williams and Oconee Outbound, School of Social Work, Carriage Lane Trailhead
0.2 mi
Peter Street
0.2 mi
Branch Street
0.2 mi
Doctor Martin Luther King Parkway
0.2 mi
North Peter Street
Peter Street at Moreland Avenue, Peter and Vine Street
0.2 mi
Pottery Street
0.2 mi
Vine Street
Vine St and 1st St, Vine St at Vine Cir, Vine St Between Arch St And Dublin St
0.2 mi
Willow Street
325 Willow Street
0.2 mi
South Peter Street
0.3 mi
Herring Street
0.3 mi
Vine Circle
0.3 mi
Wilkerson Street
0.3 mi
Chicopee Boulevard
0.3 mi
Summerwood Place
0.3 mi
Hillside Street
0.3 mi
Harper Street
0.3 mi
Firefly Trail
Athens Gets Connected: Railroad Trestles, Georgia Railroad Trestle
0.3 mi
Oakridge Avenue
0.3 mi
Aguar Plaza
0.3 mi
Oconee Street
Oconee Street at Park and Ride Outbound, Oconee Street Methodist Church, University of Georgia Police Department, Blenderz Smoothies & Bowls, Shell, 1321 Oconee Street, Blink
0.3 mi
Oak Street
Oak Street at Carr Street Outbound, Metro by T-Mobile, Vapped, 235 Oak Street at Poplar Street Inbound, Lickin Chicken, 337 Oak Street
0.3 mi
Rear Arch Street
0.3 mi
Second Street
0.3 mi
Trail Creek Trail
Tusman Fix It Station
0.4 mi