Historic mills of the Atlanta area
Located within the modern Cumberland/Galleria area, Akers Mill Road runs west from Powers Ferry Road at Interstate 285, immediately north of the Chattahoochee River, then turns south on Cumberland Boulevard, then departs west again after one "block", crossing Interstate 75 and then Cobb Parkway, and forming the southern boundary of the Cumberland Mall property.
Arnold Mill Road runs east from Main Street (former Georgia 5) in the exact center of downtown Woodstock to meet Hickory Flat Highway (Georgia 140), which continues as Arnold Mill Road southeast through Milton to Crabapple between Roswell and Alpharetta.
This antebellum mill was owned and operated by John Blake (1798–1854) and was located on Shallowford Road near I-85, northeast of Atlanta in DeKalb County.
at Intrenchment Creek Water Plant stood a grist mill operated by William Cobb, a DeKalb County pioneer.
The mill was a notable landmark in the movement of Confederate forces to the field of the Battle of Atlanta, fought July 22, 1864.
[5] Located on one of the three main branches of Utoy Creek that flow North West from East Point, Thomas Connolly established a grist mill to serve his local plantation and the surrounding community in 1850.
The mill pond still exists and is a scenic site along the former Chattahoochee, now Connolly Drive in East Point, GA.
Federal 4th Corps troops crossed the South Fork of Peachtree Creek at Durand's Mill on July 20, 1864 during their advance upon Atlanta.
Union troops of the US XIV Corps, Johnson's Division, crossed the mill pond on August 3, 1864, in an attempt to break the Confederate defenses at Utoy Creek, GA.
In 1876, the Houston Mill was built on the south fork of Peachtree Creek in Decatur, and used to grind corn (maize) into cornmeal.
The Marietta Paper Mill was built on the banks of Sope Creek[18] as part of an industrial complex, near where it ends into the Chattahoochee River.
Paper Mill Road was carried over Sope Creek by a covered bridge, which was burned by arson in the late 1960s.
Isaiah Hollingsworth built the mill and it is recorded in the U.S. Official Civil War Military Atlas (Map Book).
[26] This diversification progressed through several phases of ownership well into the 20th century, and the mill continued producing textiles until its eventual shutdown of operations in 1975.
The Starr's Mill site also included a cotton gin and a dynamo that produced electricity for nearby Senoia.
John C. Terrell moved from Pike County Georgia before 1858 to build a mill for Alexander Lynn Huie north of Pineridge Road in Forest Park on Jesters (Murcheons) Creek.
While the name ends at this point, the four-lane divided roadway (an arterial road) continues straight northeast on Lower Roswell Rd.
), north to Lower Roswell Rd., was originally a quarter-mile-long street named Terrell Mill Drive, and Google Maps still identify it as such.
In order to squeeze through an underpass below I-75, it narrows to four lanes and has a steep dip that often floods during thunderstorms as it collects water from both the road and the highway, and from the downslope to nearby Rottenwood Creek.
and Cobb Parkway in Marietta Plaza (originally a Treasure Island, now a Burlington Coat Factory), while its first headquarters was in a nearby office park on Terrell Mill Rd.
It is cited in military annals recording the movements of Walker's and Bate's divisions of Hardee's corps to the Battle of Atlanta of July 22, 1864.
His brother Thomas Terry operated a mill located at Lakewood Park, (future site of the Southeaster Fairgrounds).
The road bisects the land on which the mill was located, owned and operated by the Tilly family in the early 20th century.
The 700-acre forested Tribble Mill Park is located in Gwinnett County, near Sugarloaf Parkway between Lawrenceville and Snellville, Georgia.
According to family oral tradition, the lumber was then hauled over to the Chattahoochee River by wagon (to Aderhold's Ferry near present-day Six Flags) and floated down to Columbus, Georgia where the larger timbers were used in the construction of armored gunboat frames.
After the war William Coker and his brother John Wesley rebuilt and continued to run the mill complex together.
William is buried in Pleasant Grove Church Cemetery in Haralson County along with a number of other members of the White family.
Located on private property on the grounds of Wilkerson Mill Gardens, on Little Bear Creek in the City of Chattahoochee Hills.
Joseph Willis was the miller and ground corn into meal and grits for early settlers in the Utoy Post Office Community CIRCA 1822.
The mill was the dividing line between the Union XXIII Army Corps and the Confederates of Bates Division during the siege of Atlanta in August 1864.
