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- The name Villa Rica is derived from Spanish for “rich village” and the city’s name change was done to help promote the gold in the area.
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Villa Rica is known as the City of Gold where arts and culture are at the heart and soul of the community. The city boasts the first Gold Strike in Georgia and that history is captured daily at the Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park, the historical landmark for the city.
Villa Rica / ˌ v ɪ l ə ˈ r ɪ k ə / (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese translation: Rich Village) is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. Villa Rica is placed in the Atlanta metropolitan area .
It was changed to Villa Rica (Spanish for “City of Riches” because of the gold) in 1832. Between 1830 and 1840 about 20,000 pennyweights of gold were produced in the area. Most of the gold found here was in the form of gold dust, rather than flakes or nuggets, making it harder and more expensive to mine.
Aug 31, 2023 · Although the Georgia Gold Rush ended in the 1840s, Hixtown still wanted to promote its unearthed gold. Hixtown was renamed Villa Rica in 1881. Villa Rica, which directly translates to ‘Rich City,’ does not use the direct translation of its town name but instead calls itself another name.
H.A. (Buddy) Stockmar decided to turn the property into a dude ranch and personal flyer’s paradise. He called it “The Flying S Ranch.”. There were wagon trains, trail rides, a landing strip, a hotel, and the dam was built to provide a lake (currently Mirror Lake) for seaplane landings and guests.
Textile production in Villa Rica boomed during World War II when companies acquired government contracts to produce socks for the military. After the war, between three to six hosiery companies operated in Fullerville and Villa Rica through the 1980s.
Sep 19, 2015 · By 1927, this multi-business became the Villa Rica Manufacturing Company, adding a new hosiery mill component known as Rica Tex Mills. The last two major textile mills operating here were the Golden City Hosiery Mills and Vince Hosiery Mill, Inc.
