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Isaiah Hollingsworth built the mill and it is recorded in the U.S. Official Civil War Military Atlas (Map Book). The mill is still standing and is located off Georgia Highway 42 on Rex Road. The mill witnessed the passing of a Division of U.S. General Sherman's Federal Army on November 16, 1864.
Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in use at the Wye Mill. Massachusetts. Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich, built in 1654, fully restored in 1961
Hamburg State Park is a 741 acre (3.00 km 2) state park located near Jewell and Warthen in the U.S. state of Georgia.It is home to a 1921 water-powered grist mill still operating today, and a museum with antique agricultural tools and appliances used in rural Georgia.
The mill was constructed between 1868 and 1879 by John Griffin and Levi J. Loveless. Subsequent owners included W. Scott Freeman, his son Winfield, and Newt Pharr. The mill operated into the 1980s, making it one of the last operating gristmills in the county. In the 1990s, the mill was purchased by Gwinnett County and was restored in 2009.
Boyd Mill Place, also known as Davenport's Mill and Hearon's Mill, is the site of a historic grist mill constructed circa 1870 in Weston, Georgia in Webster County, Georgia. The mill was built by John Boyd and operated from c.1870 to 1963. Water supply for the mill is behind a 400 feet (120 m) earthen dam. [2] It was added to the National ...
The Lee and Gordon Mill in Chickamauga, Georgia is a historic grist mill and store. A saw mill was another line of its business. It produced over 70,000 bushels of milled grain in 1880, when it operated about 11 hours per day, six days per week, employing several men.
The "story of Rock Mill" begins with William Shivers' father, Jonas Shiver, who was born in 1750 and fought in the American Revolutionary War. Jonas married in 1772, and by 1809 had migrated from Virginia to this area, and was living on the east bank of the Ogeechee River in Warren County, and was a mill owner and presumably a slave owner.
George L. Smith State Park is a 1,634-acre (6.61 km 2) Georgia state park located in Emanuel County. The park is named after George L. Smith, a former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and Emanuel County native. Attractions include a grist mill, covered bridge, and the dam of the Parrish Mill