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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
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.
Flowerdew Hundred Mill: Flowerdew Hundred Post: 1978 [13] Robertson Mill Williamsburg: Post: 1621 [14] Standing in 1723. [14] Robertson Mill: Williamsburg Post [13] Buckner's Mill Yorktown: Smock 1711 [15] Destroyed by tornado in late 19th century Akers′ Mill Yorktown: Smock 2011 [16] Reconstruction of William Buckner's Mill near original site
Nora Mill Dam is a log dam about one mile or 1.5 km south of Helen, Georgia on the Chattahoochee River. The dam was built in 1824, and there is still a working grist mill at the site. The historic Nora Mill Granary was established in 1876, and is operated a business open to the public, selling grits , cornmeal , and other products which it ...
Rex Mill in Jonesboro, Georgia is a grist mill that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979. [ 1 ] It was likely built sometime between 1820 and 1860 by I. L. ("Touch") Hollingsworth, who is known to have owned the mill in 1880.
Roswell Mill was a cluster of mills located in Fulton County near Vickery Creek in Roswell, Georgia, north of Atlanta. [24] The mills were best known for producing finished textiles from raw materials grown on nearby plantations, and the group was "the largest cotton mill in north Georgia" at its height. [ 25 ]
William Shivers, the son, built a grist mill on the west side of the river, in Hancock County, and then this frame house named for the mill, before 1820. His mills "manufactured 'cotton goods and wool yarns,' and carded wool for the local people", and he became rich and owned many enslaved people, who lived on the property and worked to ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]