Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historical Marker  City Mills May 12, 2007
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    Historical Marker  City Mills 


 Site of Oldest Manufacturing operation on the
Chattahoochee River at Columbus. April 3, 1828,
 the State of Georgia through Governor George R. 
Gilmer, issued a grant to Seaborn Jones for Lot 
No. 1, 15 ½ acres in the reserve at the Coweta Fall. 
Seaborn Jones built a Grist Mill in 1828, known as 
Jones Mill and began the manufacture of water-ground 
corn meal. Milling operations of similar type have 
been continued on this site ever since.
The original dam across the river at this point was of 
wooden construction. In 1906-1907 the present stone
dam was built by the City Mills Co. The mill has 
operated under the name of City Mills for more 
than a century


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