Reading Family Mills

Site of Reading Family Grist, Saw & Fulling Mills. C. 1800

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 523 and Darts Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on County Route 523.

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Rock Run Mill

Built circa 1725

Owned by John Steel, this grist mill was in successful operation as early as 1731. At the same period a ferry was operated about one-half mile downstream at a crossing known as Upper Ferry.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Site: Ault's Mill

In this vicinity stood Ault’s mill and residence cited in Official Records as Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee’s headquarters, May 8-13, 1864.

Hardee was in temporary command of units of Hood’s A.C. (Hindman’s div.) together with his own corps at various ...

Samuel Freeman Miller

Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-1890

Born in Richmond, Kentucky, April 5, 1816; died in Washington, D.C., October 12, 1890. He graduated with honors at Transylvania College of Medicine, June, 1838. Having located in Barbourville in 1837, he studied law while ...

Jerusalem Mills

Established 1772 by David Lee a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A gun manufactory back of the mill furnished guns for the Revolution in 1776. The original tract called Jerusalem patented 1687.

Marker is on Jerusalem Road 0.2 miles west of ...

Gristmill Stone Recovered from the Little Embarras River

Gristmill Stone Recovered from the

Little Embarras River South of Oakland

about 1936. Donated to the City of Oakland

by the Curtis Family in memory of Walter A. and

Georgia (Swinford) Curtis.

Mill was in use about 1850.

Marker is on North Walnut Street north ...

Old Mill Crossing

Last known place where horses

drank and forded the river.

Dedicated to the memory of our fathers.

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Battle of Pickett’s Mill

After the successful defense at New Hope Church by Hood’s Corps [CS], May 25, 1864, Johnston [CS] extended his right NE to keep pace with the Federal leftward shift to outflank him.

Elements of the 4th, 14th and 23rd Corps ...

200 Years of Sawmilling

For nearly two centuries the story of sawmilling in the Southeast was enacted on this point on the Altamaha River. In the summer of 1721, men from South Carolina sawed the 3-inch planks to build Fort King George. In 1736, ...

Action at Pratt's Mill

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The last action of the Revolution in this part of S.C. was at Pratt's Mill, a grist mill on the Little River owned by Joseph Pratt. On October 30, 1781, an outpost of 30 Patriots at the mill, under Capt. ...