Chicopee, Georgia

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Chicopee, Georgia is a mill village located approximately 4 miles south of Gainesville, Georgia, and is in Hall County, Georgia.[1][2]

Chicopee was designed in 1925 by Earle Sumner Draper for the Chicopee Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of The Johnson and Johnson Company. It was his last mill town project and his most successful. Construction started in 1927 and the village consisted of 217 homes, a company store, medical office, and the mill across the street. The mill is the earliest example of a large single story textile plant built in the South.

The village is unincorporated and has a population of approximately 350. Originally the property was laid out for roughly 500 homes but only 217 homes were built in the first phase and the full plan was never completed.

Chicopee is registered on the National Register of Historic Places.

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