Peter Street in Athens, Georgia

ℹ️Tourist information centers

• Park Map – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Georgia Railroad Trestle – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Dudley Park, Firefly & Greenway Trails – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Dudley Park, Firefly & Greenway Trails – approx. 0.3 mi.
• Mill Products. Threads, cords and ropes producedthe the Athens Manufacturing Company. – approx. 0.3 mi.
• Mill Products. Threads, cords and ropes manufactured at the Athens Manufacturing Company. – approx. 0.3 mi.
• Mill Products: Weaponry. The Cook brothers came to Athens to manufacture guns for the Confederate Army. – approx. 0.3 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. 0.3 mi.
• Making Things In The Mill: Textiles. Weaving fabric required very skilled workers. – approx. 0.3 mi.
• The Millstone, Grist Mills: Cornmeal and Flour – approx. 0.3 mi.
• Making Things In The Mill: Textiles. Making textiles from raw cotton requires several steps. – approx. 0.3 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. 0.3 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. 0.3 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. 0.3 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. 0.3 mi.
• Water Power: Waterwheels. Up until 1918 the textile mills along the river were powered directly by water using turbine waterwheels. – approx. 0.3 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. 0.3 mi.

🚌Bus stops

• East Broad Street at South Peter Street – approx. 50 ft.
• East Broad Street at North Poplar Street Outbound – approx. 450 ft.
• East Broad Street at Derby Street – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Peter and Vine Street – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Chicopee OB – approx. 0.2 mi.
• Vine St at Vine Cir – approx. 0.3 mi.
• Chicopee – approx. 0.3 mi.
• 235 Oak Street at Poplar Street Inbound – approx. 0.3 mi.

• bus lines 2, 3