Millsaps College

Chartered Feb. 21, 1890 by Miss. Methodists. Named for & largely endowed by Maj. R.W. Millsaps. Bishop C.B. Galloway first president of board; Bishop W.B. Murrah first president of college.

Marker is at the intersection of North West Street and McTyere ...

Dr. Columbus Mills

In Honor of

Dr. Columbus Mills

Planter and Physician

"Father of Polk County"

After a ten-year effort to create a new county from parts of Henderson and Rutherford Counties, the

North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation,

thanks to Dr. Columbus Mills' efforts, ...

Origin of Cedar Creek / Mills on the Creek

(Double Sided Marker)

Origin of Cedar Creek

Dropping approximately eighty feet in two and half miles, Cedar Creek’s falling water power provided enough energy to drive Cedarburg’s many mills for over one hundred years. The creek rises from big and Little Cedar ...

Telegraph Street / Millcreek Mills

Telegraph Street. When Washington was laid out in May, 1857, there was not a street named or located where Telegraph Street is today. It was not until the resurvey of January, 1873, ordered by Wm. Snow, Judge of the Probate ...

Thiensville Mills

Original mill built for John Thien by Henry Hayssen in 1842, and a sawmill in 1843. The grist mill burned in 1874 and was rebuilt in 1876 to 4 stories. It was the largest mill in the area. The present ...

Reading Family Mills

Site of Reading Family Grist, Saw & Fulling Mills. C. 1800

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 523 and Darts Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on County Route 523.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Jerusalem Mills

Established 1772 by David Lee a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A gun manufactory back of the mill furnished guns for the Revolution in 1776. The original tract called Jerusalem patented 1687.

Marker is on Jerusalem Road 0.2 miles west of ...

Mission Mill (and Millstone)

Mills were used to grind grain such as corn or wheat into meal or flour for use as food. The grain was poured into the hopper which funneled it through the eye in the top millstone. Water drove the waterwheel ...

Mills Brothers Commercial Building

Built in 1904, this Neo-Classical Revival building was constructed for local grocers Albert and Elmer Mills. The wall ad around the corner for Gardner's "Purity Bread" with its butter yellow wrapper dates to the early 50s when the building was ...

Pettibone Creek Mills

In 1846 Major F. Lockwood built a dam and sawmill on Pettibone Creek northeast of Livingston and Harvey Lake Roads. This sawmill supplied lumber to Highland's earliest settlers until it burned in 1863. In 1867 Chester Chatfield build a cider ...