MILLS of Taylor County (there were mills here even before Taylor County for created! I think George Alexander Cooper (miller who came to Taylor Co right around the beginning of the Civil War, who built, owned & ran Cooper's Mill) was probably the first. Cooper's mill sold to: Lewis Minor, thus the mill began to be called Minor's Mill for a short time and then sold again. =================================== Anthony Mill (also known as Suggs Mill) Ponds with no mills: Whatley's Pond, back toward town from New Prospect Rd in LL212. There's also a pond in LL99 that is not a mill. Lisa Windham wwindham@worldnet.att.net =============== Angie Wilderman Gideon Kirksey, was a miller. He married in 1830 in Butts Co.; moved to AL for the 1840 census; moved to Henry Co by 1850; Crawford in 1860; and then he is in Taylor Co. until he passed away. Did millers tend to move a lot? I'll have to go back and read the article. =====Inferior Court Minutes J.T. Harmon, Henry Joiner, and J.B. Hamilton to lay out a road from the home of J.T. Harmon by way of Lewis' Bridge on White Water to Butler. Jonathan Stewart, George Hays and Lewis Hill to maker out a road from J. Stewart's Mill on Cedar Creek crossing White Water at or near the mouth of Rambullet [Ramboulet on old maps and probably named that by Lafayette in honor of a prominent Frenchman from Lafayette's home country of France. Lafayette ws near that area when he passed through here on his way to Ft. Mitchell in 1825] J. Parker, Jackson Colbert and H.H. Mangham to review a road leading from Butler by way of McCants Mill to Carsonville Jeremiah McCants, C.Y. Petty, and Thomas Wilson appointed reviewers of a road from McCant's Mills to Prattsburg. Ordered that Jacob Bickley, George G. Dias and C.F. Fickling be appointed reviewers of road from C.F. Ficklin's Mill on Patsiliga to Butler.[? north 137 out of Butler to Ficklin?] JULY 13, 1852 Thomas G. Blackman wa commissioned Justice of the Peace for the 853rd G.M. District and he, with Martin Kinsey and Perry Watson were appointed reviewers of a road beginning near the 39 mile station (on the railroad) running from Blackman's Mill on Big Whitewater to Kinsey's Mill on Little Whitewater thence to the line between Taylor and Marion on Lot 6 in 12th District. AUGUST 9, 1852 Ordered by the Court that John M. Thompson, Maj. Brooks and James Revel be reviewers of road from Butler to the Flint River at Kagler's old ferry on fraction Lot 239 in 1st Dist [must be 279] Received report of George McDowell, Allen Whittington and James Revel of a road from Patsiliga meeting the new road on Lot 286 as it is reviewed and marked out by way of Reynolds to Col George W. Town's Mills. LOWE'S MILL CREEK pg 144 Book B 13 Oct 1857 William Bryan to James H. Allman $500 3rd Dist LL224 west side of Lowe's Mill Creek Wit: Lawson H. Adkins, Daniel Royal Recorded: 20 Nov 1857 pg 339 1 Nov 1859 Martha T. Lowe to Gregory J. Turner (Macon Co) $1200 3rd Dis LL224 25 acres northeast corner; 100 acres off west side of 2nd Dis LL242 ; dower of said Martha 2nd Dis LL238, LL237 LL243 LL244 NOTE: east of Prosperity Church - Lowe Mill Creek borders Macon Wit: D.O. Smith, W.A.H. Royal, JP Recorded: Nov 4, 1859 HOWARD Vicinity Judge W. D. Grace owned a sawmill and donated the sawing of the timber for the building of Howard Methodist Church. The hill grew winter huckleberries, and was also a favorite place on Sundays. There would be preaching in the mornings by a traveling preacher and in the afternoon everyone would gather for games. For amusement the young people and especially the twins, Misses Gus and Van Loyd, would stroll up this hill for with their boyfriends. It was not long before the name 'sparking berries' was given to the fruit growing in abundance there. OLD MILL on RAMBULETTE AND WHITE WATER CREEKS was "old mill on Rambullette Cr. 7 miles south of Butler. And again in the report by the Taylor Co. Historical Soc. Again from Abstracts Book D Peter T. Mofort, a millwright claims lien on Lewis Hill's Mill and land it is on for $318 for labor. The Mill is on Rambullet Creek near where it enters into Whitewater Cr. LL 229/ 12th District. Old Mill on Rambulette Creek 7 miles south of Butler on U. S. 19.[12th District LL 229] Picture featured in Taylor Tracer July, 1997 page 2. Other owner's or name of mill: Lewis Hill, John S. Murray (1852), Lewis Hill and Perrin V. Wesson (1857), Aretus Turner, Pilkinton Brothers, Joe L. Harmon, T. W. Upton and A. O. Albritton. The Pilkinton Brothers deeded 1 acre in the Northeast corner of 12th Dist LL229 to James Robert Harris and J. Blakely, Deacons of Lebanon Baptist Church on October 20, 1905. There was also land set aside for a school. ============= Bartlett Mill Creek pg 505 Deed Book B 17 Jan 1863 James S. Bartlett to C.W. Wade - Highest bidder Bartlett, exec for Sterling S. Bartlett dec'd $1,024 12th Dis LL212, 205 except 10 acres southeast corner; LL204 west of Bartlett Mill Creek being the dividing line to run of creek Wit: JJ Reinhart Recorded: Jan 24, 1863 ================== SAW MILL pg 424 15 Aug 1860 Alfred Munson to James M. Green $3,000 1/2 timber suitable for sawing into lumber on lots of land 181, 186, 159, 158 south half and rights to steam mill on said land necessary for operation, also 5 acres where dwelling house attached to mill is situated 2 acres, right of way of the SW R.Road, extending 2.5 miles north including the mill for a term of year to expire on the 26 Sept 1860; also 1/2 of steam saw mill located on 14th Dis LL159 together with the engine and all other machinery tools; 3 log waggons, 8 set of harnees, 8 mules and all extra wheels, smith shop and tools, 3 yoke of oxen and 1 horse buggy, 1 half lease for term of 5 years from 26 Jan 1859 of lots of land 127 and 129 in 14th Dis Wit: James T. May Recorded: Sept 21, 1860 ======== Saw Mill (Steam) mentioned re: Andersonville Prison REASONS WHY THERE WERE NO BARRACKS. The Confederate Government has always been harshly assailed for its want of humanity in not having barracks to house the prisoners from the sun and rains. A more senseless hue and cry was never heard. How was it possible to saw timber into planks without saw-mills? There were two water-power mills distant three and six miles respectfully, but such rude primitive affairs undeserving the name. The nearest steam saw-mill was twenty-three miles distant (near Smithville), the next at Reynolds, about fifty miles distant; but the great bulk of the lumber used, fully two-thirds, was brought from Gordon, a distance of eighty miles. Even if these mills had had the capacity to supply the necessary amount of lumber, it would still have been impossible to have provided barracks for the prisoners, as all the available engines of all the railroads in the Confederacy were taxed to their utmost capacity in transporting supplies for the army in the field and to the prisons. But few even of the officers of the guard had shanties, and these few were built of slabs and sheeting, which every one knows his the refuse of the mills. And even though there were no lack of lumber, when we remember that there was but one solitary manufactory of cut nails in the limits of the Confederacy, certainly no blame could be attached to the authorities for not furnishing more comfortable quarters for them. Nearly every building in the encampment was built of rough logs and covered with clap- boards split from the tree and held to their places by poles. The force of these statements is readily appreciated by every intelligent, unprejudiced mind. Besides, is it customary for any nation in time of war to treat their prisoners in a more humane manner than their own soldiers in the field? The inquiry becomes pertinent when we reflect that during the last two years of the war there was not a tent of any description to be found in any of the armies of the Confederacy, save such as were captured from the Federals. Source: Southern Historical Society Papers ======== Hick's Saw Mill Jones Hicks, came from Tennessee to Crawford County, Georgia. After remaining there several years, he moved to what is now Taylor County and set up a sawmill near the place now commonly known as Hick's Mill. Other families such as the Gordons, Corbins and Carsons moved into this section then covered by virgin forests ========= near DAVISTON === pg 582 Muscogee 6 Sept 1861 Perry Spencer to John Q. Adams $500 15th Dis known as Daviston Post Office, the norwest corner of lot 181 running east to M.P. Brown Mill ; David Lockhart on southwest; north John J. Alsobrook containing 30 acres. Recorded: Jan3, 1865