Mill Creek Church

War Strikes Peaceful Homes and Fields

This church, Mill Creek Church of the Brethren, stands on the site of an antebellum house of worship that, during the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8, 1862, was used as a hospital. Amputated ...

Site of the Myers-Bogert Grist Mill

Abraham Myers established a grist mill at this site on the Hackensack River prior to 1765. Inherited by son John who operated the mill until his death in 1829, it was continued by his son-in-law James Bogert. Long known as ...

A Flour Milling Revolution

In the 1870s and 1880s, important changes took place inside several small flour mills in southeastern Minnesota. Those changes laid the groundwork for a technological revolution that made Minnesota's milling industry the largest in the world.

The changes grew out ...

The Battle of Gaines’ Mill - 1862

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

All the visible remains along the trail date from the June 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor, but this ground figured prominently in the Seven Days campaign of 1862 as well.

On June 27, 1862, General Thomas ...

Falls Mill

1.2 miles north. In 1810, this was a leading cotton-producing region. The brick building, built around 1825, housed a thread mill, which utilized the water power of Bean's Creek. It operated sporadically until about 1890.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Baylor Massacre Millstone

“This millstone is the only visible marker of the Baylor Massacre in existence today. On September 28, 1778, a detail of Baylor’s Continental Dragoons camping at Haring’s Tannery in River Vale was betrayed into the hands of the British by ...

Edmund and Emily Miller House

Noted economist and University of Texas professor Edmund T. Miller (1878-1952) and his wife, Emily (1884-1979), an artist and member of the pioneer Maverick family of San Antonio, acquired this property in 1922. The design for their Mediterranean style home ...

Millbrook (Roy-Hardin House)

William Carroll "Cal" Roy (1851-1916) and Annie (Stanley) Roy (1851-1925) bought this Bouldin mill site in 1894 from Powhatan Bouldin, heir of James E. Bouldin (1796-1876), the original owner. It was converted into a home, and here the Roy’s reared ...

South Carolina State Hospital, Mills Building

South Carolina Lunatic Asylum

(Upper Plaque)

Original Building

South Carolina State Hospital

Designed by Robert Mills

150 Years

Healing With Concern

1822 - 1972

South Carolina Department

Of Mental Health

(Lower Left Medallion)

The National Register of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of History

and Archives

South Carolina State Hospital ...

Cranberry Mills

This gristmill stone commemorates Cranberry Mills, the first industry in Cranbury - erected by Thomas Grubbs in 1737, on the south side of Cranbury Brook. The village, was once called Cranberry or Cranberry Town, changed its name to Cranbury late ...