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Sewell Mill - Marietta | All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
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Sewell Mill - Marietta | All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
| (Not the best conditions (too sunny) for shooting wooded ruins, but you take what you get...) |
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| The south wall and a portion of one side are all that remain of the grist mill. |
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| Exterior of south wall |
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| Viewed from another angle... |
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| Mill ruin from the creek bed. |
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| I suspected that this channel off the main creek was the old millrace... |
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| But the property owner pointed out the actual millrace... |
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| The earthen and stone millrace runs approximately 100 yards from a point upstream. |
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| The millrace parallels Sewell Creek as it approaches the inlet point. |
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| This huge pipe was the water inlet, connecting to the top of the millrace. |
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| Detail of pipe rivets... |
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| The pipe inlet would have been under the surface of the millpond. Stone remains of one side of the old dam are visible. |
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| Iron rod driven into a boulder in the creek. |
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| Two branches of Sewell Creek merge here. |
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| Remains of the millpond dam on far side of the creek. I would suspect that the floods of 2009 washed away some of the stone dam remnants. |
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| From the creek, view towards outside stone wall of the millrace. |
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| Another view of the creek, about half-way between the millpond water inlet and the mill ruins. |
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End of millrace, just above the grist mill. At this point, there would have been a sluice control to send the water to the mill (left) or bypass back to the creek. |
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| Back at the mill ruins, a few more views... |
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| Apparently, little if anything remains of the saw mills that were located upstream... |
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| Sewell Mill (Flour Mill) is shown at center of map, with two saw mills to the north. From Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Pl. 60. |