Chambers County AlArchives Photo Place.....Location Of Ward's Mill October 1, 2005
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Source:             Location Of Ward's Mill
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Ward's Mill - site of what is left of Ward's Mill, located outside 
Buffalo,Alabama.


Additional Comments:
 Ward's Mill 
  Location: The Ward's Mill marker has been stolen. The Sheriff's Department 
is trying to locate the marker.
Marker Dedication or Erection Date:  August 25, 1985 
SIDE 1:  
Where Oakfuskee Trail crosses Oseligee Creek: Nimrod Doyle, first white 
settler in present day Chambers County, built a trading post and grist mill 
here in 1816-1818. Doyle was in the Great Lakes Indian Wars under General St. 
Clair. He knew Indian leader Tucemseh at Detroit, and was the only white man 
Tecumseh would talk with at Tukabachi. Doyle was sub-agent under Indian agent 
Benjamin Hawkins. Nimrod Doyle married daughter of Coweta Indian Joseph 
Islands and fathered two sons and two daughters. 

SIDE 2:  Ward's Mill 
Children of Nimrod Doyle, first white settler of present day Chambers County: 
Daughter Muscogee Doyle's land from 1832 treaty became site of Fredonia. 
Amanda Doyle married James Callahan at Asbury Mission near Fort Mitchell in 
1829. Callahan was last survivor of the Confederate Congress. Son Jackson 
married a Creek woman and owned Ward’s Mill site 1832. Son Winchester married 
a white woman. Doyle’s family went with Creek Indians to Oklahoma. Since then 
many whites have owned this place, including Revolutionary Veteran Stephen 
Nolen, and later, Solomon Ward. 
Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, The Chambers County 
Commission, The Leonard B. Blanton Family 1985 


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