Miller's Battery - Eshleman's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Artillery Reserve

Eshleman's Battalion Miller's Battery

Three Napoleons

July 3 Advanced before daylight into position about 100 yards north of the Peach Orchard. This Battery fired the signal guns for the cannonade preceding Longstreet's ...

Miller's Saloon

Built 1860's by Fred Miller; the finest bar, pool hall, card room, and dance hall in the area. Sold to R. V. Shaw in 1903 who operated a hotel here for years; later known as John Greenhalgh Hall. Napier family ...

Hood’s Mill

Near here the Confederate cavalry of Major General J. E. B. Stuart entered Carroll County from Cooksville about daybreak June 29, 1863. After damaging the tracks and bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Sykesville, they marched to Westminster ...

Union Mills

“Shining lights.” Gettysburg Campaign.

At daybreak on June 30, 1863, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart arrived here from his bivouac at the Orendorff farm north of Westminster. He then gathered his brigade commanders to discuss Union Gen. Judson H. Kilpatrick’s ...

Defiance at Union Mills

“I’m a Union man!” Gettysburg Campaign.

In 1863, brothers Andrew K. and William Shriver resided on either side of the Littlestown Turnpike here and likewise were divided in their loyalties, with William supporting the Confederacy and Andrew the Union. When officers ...

Union Mills

Built 1797 on the site of an earlier mill by Andrew and David Shriver, Jr.

On June 29, 1863 General J. E. B. Stuart and his cavalry camped here. On June 30, 1863 General James Barnes of the 5th Corps U. ...

Watts Mills' World War II Veterans Memorial

Top Plaque:

Watts Mills' employees

who gave their lives

in World War II

Rumsley Thompson Bennett Chester Calvin Miller

Joe Edward Carlton Rex Darvin Power

Tommy Cogdill Luther Prather

John Elmer Davis Robert Lee Putman

James Byron Gray Allen Rhodes

Alvin Ludie Hazle Ryan Telford Satterwhite

Ernest Geter Hewitt, Jr. ...

Millwood

Two miles northwest of here astride Mill Flat Creek is the site of old Millwood. A sawmill town established in 1891. Railroads brought logs here for milling and later lumber from other nearby mills including that which cut the privately ...

Myricks Mill

This old mill has been in operation in the same building for at least 150 years. In 1825 on his visit to Georgia, Marquis de LaFayette stopped here and found this mill grinding corn and making unbolted flour. As soon ...

William T. Miller Grist Mill

Stonemasons Joe E. Bishop, "Rocky" Davis, and "Old Frank" Hamilton built this 2-story native stone mill for William T. Miller (1846-1936) in 1882. Steam power was used to grind grain here until a crude oil engine was installed (1918). The ...