Lee County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Mill, Bean's 
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Bobby Meadows brmeadows@hotmail.com February 4, 2007, 8:57 pm

Cemetery:           Bean's Mill Side 2
Name:               Bean's Mill

Date Of Photograph: February 3, 2007
Photo can be seen at:
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Bean's Mill

Here in 1897 the first iron bridge in Lee
County was built. In 1903 George W. Bean
bought the mill, operating it until his death
in 1952. About 1910 Bean installed an iron
overshot wheel to replace the old turbine.
Later, the dam height was raised two feet.
On March 30, 1939, FDR on his way to Warm
Springs stopped his motorcade for a vist.
In 1989 John M. Ross purchased the
deteriorated mill with 80 acres. Ross
reconstructed the mill to operating condition
in 1997. On October 1, 1997, the Alabama
Historical Commission placed it on the
Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.


Additional Comments:
Erected by the 
Historic Cahattahoochee Commission
and
Lee county Historical society
2002


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