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Old Mill Site? February 2025 - Towns County, GA |
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Old Mill Site? February 2025 - Towns County, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| I spent an afternoon looking for old homesites; found a couple but there wasn't much remaining to photograph. Then I came across what might be the site of an old mill. |
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| I came across a few rock piles that may or may not have been the remains of collapsed chimneys. |
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| Daffodils in front of a dug cellar are the only evidence that remains at this old home site. |
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| And Yuccas, another plant occasionally seen at old home sites. |
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| A few foundation corner stones remained, but no sign of a chimney... |
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| The nearby hillside was covered with old prospect pits. Probably gold, as gold mines are found nearby. |
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| More prospect pits |
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| Near a homesite, I found what I think might be the millrace from an old mill, parallell to a creek. It is very similar to millraces I have seen both at old gristmills and iron furnaces. I haven't found any record of a mill here, but many small communities had a grist or saw mill, and millraces were also utilized to power mills for mining operations, some of which were in this area. The features are hard to discern in the photos. |
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| Suspected millrace, looking upstream. The main creek is on the left. |
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| Outflow of the suspected millrace into the creek. |
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| Suspected millrace, looking downstream. |
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| I think this is the remains of the base of a mill dam, located just downstream from the millrace inflow. |
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| A 3-4 foot drop just upstream would have provided extra head to power a mill. |