Aragon Baptist Church

In 1898, builders Wolcott and Campbell finished construction of a textile mill in Polk County. A small community of workers spriung up around it and called the town Aragon after a mineral deposit in the area. The mill quickly became successful and more workers moved in. The town was a mill village with most of the houses and businesses owned by the mill and rented to the employees. There was no church in the community until 1916 when this structure was built and Aragon Baptist was established. Today, about all that is left of the mill itself in a mill pond and the smokestack to the right, but the church is still very active.
Andy Sarge