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FOUNTAIN'S MILL ON KIWANIS TRAIL

   In 1818 Green Fountain was married to Miss Sarah Campbell and took his bride
to his frontier home about a mile and a half from the site of the mill. It was
in 1828 that he secured lot of land number 169, upon which the mill site is
located. He began building the mill soon after he purchased this land. A great
deal of the work was done by Milo, a faithful slave, who, being born on the same
day of his white master, was given to him, and served him and his children and
grandchildren as miller for fifty years or more.

   Some time in the late twenties Green Fountain installed a sawmill run by
water power and sawed the lumber for a large colonial

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home, which, though dilapidated, is still standing. The bricks for the pillars
and chimneys of this home were made by hand.

   Later, a factory for carding wool supplanted the sawmill. This was operated
by one man, Mr. Foster, who served three generations. The machinery was sold in
the late nineties by Allen Turner Fountain, a grandson of the founder. Green
Fountain died in 1842, when the mill became the property of William Jenks Fountain.

   W. J. Fountain built a ginnery across the ditch, which was run by water. It
was burned by a match being ignited by the gin, some one having dropped it
either in loading or picking cotton.

   There was also a steam sawmill, a blacksmith shop and store, but they are no
more. The old mill still grinds as it did in bygone days and is now the property
of the great-grandchildren, belonging to the estate of Allen Turner Fountain,
whose son, A. T. Fountain, is administrator.

   It is widely known for both its meal and as a fine place for fishing. It has
been the mecca for anglers in South Georgia for more than a century.




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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY GEORGIA"

OFFICIAL HISTORY

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