Taylor's Mill Historic District

English settler John Taylor established a gristmill c. 1760 approximately 0.7 miles downstream on Taylor's Mill Road. The mill supplied flour to American troops during the Revolutionary War and continued to operate into the early 20th century. This bridge, erected ...

Milltown - A 19th Century Village

Few vestiges remain, but in the 1880s Milltown bustled. Cooper Mill shared "Main Street" with a blacksmith shop, a general store, a tavern, Abram Cooper's sawmill and the Mountain Spring Distillery, a cider mill that made apple brandy and apple ...

Cooper Gristmill

1826

Original gristmill circa 1788. Owned by Elias Howell. Present gristmill built 1826 by Nathan Cooper. Only surviving structure of the industrial community, Milltown,

Marker is on New Jersey Route 24, on the right.

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Battle of Lee’s Mill (Dam Number 1)

April 16, 1862

A stalwart defense of the Warwick River by units of the 15th North Carolina, 7th Georgia and 2nd Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A., commanded by General J.B. Magruder is commemorated here. The defensive line extending across the Virginia Peninsula was ...

War Eagle Mill

1832 ~ 1838 ~ 1873 ~ 1973

In 1832, Sylvanus Blackburn left Tennessee with a wagon and four oxen, and came to the War Eagle River valley in Arkansas. He spent the winter building a log home and clearing the land ...

Stanton’s Mill

In 1797, Thomas Stanton conveyed water rights to Jesse Tomlinson, and Tomlinson built the first grist mill on the site of Col. Dunbar's 1755 hospital encampment.

The mill was prime reason for settlement in this area. In addition to being an ...

Allegheny Cotton Mill Strikes

Major strikes by women cotton factory workers protesting 12-hour work-days occurred nearby in Allegheny City in 1845 & 1848. The strikes led to an 1848 state law limiting workdays to 10 hours and prohibiting children under twelve years of age ...

Hamill Spring

Spring and small holding reservoir, which lie two miles north, were used during the droughts as a water source for settlers between the early 1800's and 1930. Also used to feed boilers for nearby Gus Boyd sawmill. Spring named for ...

Lindley's Mill

In a Battle, September 13, 1781, Four Miles Southwest, Butler's Whigs Failed to Rescue Governor Burke From Fanning's Tories.

Marker is on NC Highway 87 South near East Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road, on the left when traveling south.

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Hunter’s Mill

Pennsylvania Reserve Corps Camp

For four days in March 1862, the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps camped here. It left Camp Pierpont at Langley on March 10 for Hunter's Mill on orders of Union Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of ...