Consolidated Virginia & California Pan Mill

Upper end of Six Mile Canyon (Mill Street), Virginia City

Built in 1874, the mill went into operation in January of 1975, and was destroyed later that year in the great fire of October 25th, but was quickly rebuilt at ...

First Sawmill

First sawmill in Town of Marcellus built 1796 by Deacon Samuel Rice and Judge Dan Bradley.

Marker is on West Seneca Turnpike (Main Street) (New York Route 175) 0.2 miles east of North St. (New York Route 174), on the ...

Windmills

Windmills were once a common sight across the Great Plains and played an important role in the settlement of the American West. Windmills allowed settlers to farm the fertile plains in areas not blessed with abundant streams and rivers. ...

Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Pafford Miller

Baxley`s Caroline Pafford Miller (1903-1992) was the first Georgia novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author was born in Waycross and spent her formative years in the South Georgia wiregrass country. After moving to Baxley she ...

Starr's Mill

The property that became Starr’s Mill was owned by Hananiah Gilcoat who built the first mill here before his death in 1825. This site, on Whitewater Creek, was less than a mile from the boundary between Creek Indian lands and ...

Welcome to the Site of The Battle of the Windmill

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You are standing on a battlefield where men fought and died. This battle took place in November 1838, during the Canadian rebellions. One side fought to "liberate" Canada from British rule. ...

Keene’s Mill

A saw and grist mill built by James Keene between 1796 and 1800, when it was expanded, stood on the north side of the original Keene Mill Road right-of-way just to the east of this marker. The mill served the ...

Gays Mills Sesquicentennial

1848 – 1998

In the year 1847 James B. Gay, a civil engineer and native of Indiana, journeyed to the unsettled Kickapoo Valley. Here he was impressed by acres of untouched forest which covered the hills and valleys. Finding a ...

Miller’s Blockhouse

Site 3 miles north. Built about 1780 by Jacob Miller, Sr. Rendezvous for settlers of the Dutch Fork area. Here, March 31, 182, Ann Hupp led a heroic defense against attacking Indians.

Marker is on National Road (U.S. 40).

Courtesy ...

Veirs Mill

Veirs Mill was built by Samuel Clark Veirs in 1838. It was operated by Veirs and Co., or Veirs and Bros., for 89 years. Known by many as Rock Creek Mills, it drew customers from Rockville and Mitchel's Crossroads (now ...