A rural Tennessee farming community was once the bustling site of the thriving Great Falls Cotton Mill. The three-story brick building is still there, but the workers and their surrounding dwellings are long gone. Remnants of mill workers’ late 18th-century and early 19th-century home life remains only in rusted, deteriorating wash buckets, sections of cars, and barbed wire fencing. Visitors can see it from a walking trail overtaken on both sides by over a century’s worth of growth.
The ruins of the Great Falls Cotton Mill still stand to this day, although they're in severe disrepair. Deena Bouknight
