Olin Miller Dantzler

Olin Miller Dantzler (1826-1824) was a native of South Carolina. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia in 1846. He married Caroline Clover on July 10, 1850, and they had five children. Prior to the war Dantzler served as a ...

Cabin from Gabriel Mills Area

This cabin of squared logs and hand-hewn limestone was built in the early 1850s near the village of Gabriel Mills (20 mi. NW). It stood on property owned in 1850-53 by Samuel Mather (1812-78), miller and blacksmith who first settled ...

The Million Penny Parade

Dr. Kate NewComb had a dream -- a hospital for the Lakeland area. Through contributions and volunteer help, the hospital was started. Because of the lack of funds the building was discontinued. Pennies would now help to complete the hospital.

The ...

Gervais Grist Mill

Just across the road and creek from this marker was the site of the first commercial grist mill built in the region now named Minnesota. Constructed in 1844 – five years before the birth of Minnesota Territory – the water-powered, ...

Mill Dam

The mound of earth in front of you was probably part of the dam for William Parks' paper mill. His mill was the first in Virginia for making paper and operated six years or more beginning 1744. Parks established the ...

Battle of Dingle's Mill

(Front text)

Here on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States. 158 Confederates rallied by Col. Geo. W. Lee stopped, for several hours, the advance ...

Mill Stone

This is the Bottom or Grinding Stone from a grist mill in nearby Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.

Two rotating wheels, turned by water power, ground corn and wheat kernels into flour.

A gift of R.W. Harry Sky

George Washington Masonic Historic Site ...

Marine Mill Site

One of Minnesota's first major industries was born here on August 24, 1839, when the slow, cumbersome up-and-down saw of the Marine Lumber Company cut the first commercial lumber in the state from trees felled in the rich white pine ...

Waple’s Mill

Approximately 1,200 feet southeast of this marker, on the west side of Difficult Run, was located Waple's Mill. George Henry Waple built it in 1867. For twenty-three years beginning in 1890 the grist and sawmill was owned and operated by ...

Site of The Battle of Dingle's Mill

This tablet marks

the site of the Battle

of Dingle's Mill

fought April 9, 1865

between

Potter's Brigade

and

the Reserve South

Carolina Malitia C.S.A.

Erected by

Dick Anderson

Chapter U.D.C.

(Lower stone marker text)

The adjacent marker was first placed on

the ...