The past several months have been difficult at best for Chattooga County’s largest employer, Mount Vernon Mills.  In addition to the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mill’s future under current ownership has been in question.

Residents across the area have been keeping up with the news about the mill after Mount Vernon announced the closing of their yarn mill in Northeast Georgia earlier this  year.  In Trion, yarn production stopped for the first time in the mill’s 175 year history.

Recently, a group of investors was reportedly looking at purchasing the mill.  Sources tell WZQZ News that that proposal has fallen through.

The COVID-19 pandemic has also played havoc with the mill’s production.  Many of the retailers that rely on the final product of cloth have been closed now for months.

For now, local officials at Mount Vernon Mills are optimistic about getting the mill back up and going and reports released over the past two days indicate that the purchasing of fire-retardant material may be seeing an increase in the coming weeks.