Double Mills

A natural watering place in prehistoric time, as evidenced by artifacts found here. Used later by Indians and Spaniards on roads from northern Mexico.

As Maravillas Creek developed from a draw into water channel, old water hole vanished. About 1900 ...

Ellicott Flour Mills

The Ellicott Driveway portion of the Gwynns Falls trail follows the route of a millrace that carried water to a flour-milling complex owned by the Ellicott family. In the 1800s, 26 gristmills along the Gwynns Falls and other on the ...

Gallego Mills

Richmond's Gallego Mills were a major 19th century industry. In 1834, Joseph Gallego built a mill on the Great Basin at the northwest corner of 12th & Canal Streets. The mill used Basin water to turn its waterwheels. After an ...

The Jail / Robert Mills

Lancaster County

[Marker Front]:

This is the "gaol" that Willis W. Alsobrook contracted to build for Lancaster District "…agreeable to the plans and specifications signed by Robert Mills…." In 1868 Lancaster District became Lancaster County and this structure became the Lancaster County ...

Eagle & Phenix Mills

In 1851 the Eagle Mill, one of the pioneer textile plants of Columbus, was built on this site to manufacture cotton and woolen goods. During the War the mill manufactured goods for the Confederacy and the State of Georgia. Products ...

Roxbury Mills Bridge

This bridge was built in 1824, in close proximity to Roxbury Mills, an early sawmill and later a large distillery complex which operated into the 20th century. A three-arch bridge over the Antietam, it was one of a series of ...

Soap Creek Paper Mills

The original structures which housed the Marietta Paper Mills ~ incorporated in 1859 ~ stood 1/4 mile down stream from Paper Mill Road. The mills manufactured news print, wrapping paper and stationery ~ a pioneer enterprise in this section of ...

Millstones Long in the Service of Pioneers

[Plaque One:]

These Millstones long in the Service

of our Pioneers dedicated to their memory

by the Edgar County Historical Society

1817 - 1927

[Plaque Two:]

From the Lewis Jones Farm near Nevins

presented to

Edgar County by his son

William Shields Jones, M.D.

of Redmon

1861 - 1949

Marker is on ...

Bridgewater Mills

In the late 1790's the river flowed swiftly around these islands. The Bridgewater Mills, a water powered saw and grist mill and an iron foundry, where the first bar iron was made in Canada, were located here. The Mills were ...

Historic Millstone

From Gilbert's Mill on North Fork River in Ellsworth Park, Danville's first mill

Marker is at the intersection of Lafayette Street and North Gilbert Street, on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org