Mill Stone

Used in

Sander's Flour Mill

which began operation

in Council Grove in

1874.

Gift of J.L. Sanders, Jr.

1964

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892 — 1950

“All I could see from where I stood

Was three long mountains and a wood;

I turned and looked another way,

And saw three islands in a bay.

So with my eyes I traced the line

Of the horizon, thin and fine,

Straight around ...

Construction of Fort Mill Ridge

On March 16, 1863, Col. Campbell ordered his command to move their encampment from Romney to the fields adjacent to Mill Creek immediately west of Mill Ridge. Sheltered between the mountain to the west and the ridge, the camp was ...

Miller Cemetery

This cemetery was the burial site

of the Miller family from the early

1800s. The remaining stones erected

in 1836, are to John Miller (1750-1854),

soldier of the revolution; his wife,

Margaret Ott Miller; and their son,

John Miller Jr. Their genealogical

connections with many of the

Orangeburg ...

Oliphant’s Mill

David Oliphant bought the

sawmill / gristmill complex

in 1763. Five generations

of Oliphants operated the

mill for over 90 years.

Marker is at the intersection of Himmelein Road and Mill Street, on the left when traveling west on Himmelein Road.

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The Milledgeville Hotel and Oliver Hardy

On this corner stood the Milledgeville Hotel built in 1858 while Milledgeville served as Georgia's capital. In 1903 Emily Norvell Hardy took over management of the hotel. She moved into the hotel with her two youngest children, including eleven-year-old Norvell ...

Hunter Mill Road

Considered to be a main north/south route from Fairfax Court House. Hunter Mill Road served as a key passageway for Union and Confederate traffic during the Civil War. The road was used to travel to and from the great battles ...

Bollinger Mill/Burfordville Covered Bridge

(Front):

Bollinger Mill

Maj. George Frederick Bollinger built the first mill here in 1800, on a 640-acre grant from Louis Lorimier, Spanish Commandant of Cape Girardeau district of Upper Louisiana. A German Swiss from North Carolina, Bollinger visited this area 1796, and ...

Fort Mill Ridge

General Information

Fort Mill Ridge is a Union fortification constructed between March and June, 1863, to defend the Mechanicsburg Gap and South Branch Potomac Valley. The remains of the fortification have been undisturbed over the past 135 years and are among ...

Metamora Grist Mill

In 1845, Jonathan Banes built a three-story frame cotton mill, known as Metamora Cotton Factory, on this site. Banes, a former contractor on the canal, converted the cotton factory to a flouring mill in 1856, and sold the mill to ...