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7,008
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$45,034
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America/New_York
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Commerce, GA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Commerce a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Commerce Home page. The Commerce Home page provides as much information as possible on Commerce. Knowing Commerce’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Commerce’s Home page, you will also find Commerce’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Commerce has a population of 7008. 48.3% of Commerce’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 43.7% of Commerce is married and 64.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $142,570, and the average rent is $875. Household median income in Commerce is $45,034, and the individual median income is $26,325. Commerce’s Ethnic is the following: White(77%), Black(19.5%), Hispanic(4.8%), Multiple(1.8%), Other(1.1%), Asian(0.6%).
The Harmony Grove community was officially incorporated as a town on December 24, 1884, including all areas within a one-mile radius of the railroad depot, one half mile east, and 400 yards west. Harmony Grove Mills, Inc. was organized under the laws of Jackson County on April 3, 1893, for the purpose of processing and producing cotton textiles.
It served various purposes over the years, including the manufacture of denim overalls and the earliest production of electricity in the city. The mill village created to house employees makes up a significant portion of the homes on the southeast end of Commerce today. The mill had been in operation under various corporations until the spring of 2004, when it closed operations and was sold; it has been used for warehouse storage space since, and is currently for sale.
The building is still a major feature of the city. Near the end of the 19th century, many began to feel that the name "Harmony Grove" was too long to write and sounded too much like a country village. In addition, many didn't like the fact that mail frequently went to another post office by the same name in Dawson County.
Harmony Grove was reincorporated and renamed "Commerce" on August 6, 1904, in an effort to address these concerns and reflect the city's commercial dominance in the north Georgia cotton trade.In 1959, a series of controversial town hall meetings were held to try to convince members of the federal Interstate Highway System to re-route the proposed Interstate 85, originally planned to go through Gainesville (Hall County), through Commerce and Lavonia (Franklin County).
The proposal was changed, and the interstate was routed through Jackson County. Even more so than the railroad nearly a century before, this major transportation artery brought tremendous commercial advantage to Commerce, at a time it desperately needed it.
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