Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Aragon, GA

Aragon is a small city in Polk County in northwest Georgia, covering only about 1.1 square miles.

The 2020 census counted 1,440 residents of Aragon living in 538 households.

Aragon was established in December 1899, a post office has operated there since 1899, and the city was incorporated in 1914.

The city was named for local deposits of the mineral aragonite.

Aragon grew up around the Aragon Mill, a textile mill built in 1898 by Walcott and Campbell of New York Mills, New York, with a mill village of workers' houses beside it.

The mill was purchased in 1900 by the A. D. Juilliard Company, which greatly expanded it, and for decades the mill was the economic heart of the community.

After passing through a succession of owners, the mill finally closed in the 1990s, and the vacant complex was largely destroyed by fire in 2002.

Folk musician and activist Si Kahn wrote the song "Aragon Mill" in the early 1970s lamenting the passing of the mill-village way of life; the song was later recorded by the Red Clay Ramblers and, retitled "Belfast Mill," by The Fureys.

An EF3 tornado struck the northern part of Aragon on March 15, 2008, killing two people.

Aragon's population peaked at 1,272 in 1950 in the mill's heyday, fell to 855 by 1980 as the textile industry declined, and rebounded to 1,440 by 2020.