I’ve always wanted to photograph this old textile mill, which is right off High Falls Road in East Griffin. And after seeing this slideshow of beautiful photographs of old dilapidated buildings in Detroit , I felt compelled to do so.

The mill, which was built in the late nineteenth century and operated until the 1950′s, was one of many owned by the Dundee family in Griffin. It stands there like the Parthenon — a symbol of what once was. The textile industry was the fabric that made up this city — it was Griffin. The mills built and sustained the middle class in this community, like the industry did in many other communities across the country. But the last remaining thread of that fabric was destroyed earlier this year when Springs Industries — who purchased several of the old Dundee mills years ago — closed it’s last Griffin plant.