Sope Creek Ruins | |
 Sope Creek Ruins (2012) | |
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| Nearest city | Marietta, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°56′26″N 84°26′16″W / 33.94056°N 84.43778°W |
| Area | 182 acres (74 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000619[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 27, 1973 |
Sope Creek Ruins are located at the intersection of Paper Mill Road and Sope Creek in Cobb County, Georgia and are old industrial ruins. These ruins are the remnants of a larger manufacturing complex which drew on the waterpower that the creek produced. During the period 1850 to 1940, a succession of enterprises, from a (fully integrated) paper mill, twine plant, flour mill and hydroelectric power plant occupied an area of about one mile along the creek.
The paper mill at Sope Creek was run by Marietta Paper Mills and incorporated on December 19, 1859, possibly by Andrew Schofield Edmondston and Saxon A. Anderson. Facilities at the paper mill included a mill, oil room, office, mill sluice (raceway), storeroom, dam, machine shop, pulp-grinding mill, and two shelters.[2]
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Cobb County, Georgia) on April 27, 1973, with its address listed as restricted.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Soap Creek Paper Mills: HMdb.org : The Historical Marker Database Archived January 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine