Located near Henderson Creek, one-tenth of a mile south of Midvale Road, in unincorporated DeKalb County, and named for Greenville Henderson (1792-1869). Federal 4th Corps troops crossed the South Fork of Peachtree Creek at Durand's Mill on Jduring their advance upon Atlanta. His name was given to Wallace Station, a former stop on the Seaboard Railroad, and the road to Emory University where it joins Clifton Road. Williams' name designated the old road now known as Briarcliff and Williams Mill Road. Durand (1822-1891), and later by Fredrick A. The Millpond prevented the direct assault of the US XXIII Corps during August 1864 along South Utoy Creek.ĭurand's Mill was a water-powered sawmill and factory operated in the 1860s by Samuel A.

The Dam site was destroyed in 1963 with the construction of the GA Hwy 166 Lakewood Freeway. The mill pond still exists and is a scenic site along the former Chattahoochee, now Connolly Drive in East Point, GA.Įstablished in 1850 by Thomas Connolly, located at the juncture of three tributaries of South Utoy Creek, A large dam supported a saw mill to meet lumber needs in the Utoy and East Point Areas of Fulton County. The mill was destroyed several times by flood and rebuilt until 1910 when it was destroyed by the US Sanitary Commission to prevent the spread of mosquitoes and malaria and flu after the epidemics in 1910-1919. Confederate Troops of Cleburnes Division, Hardees Corps were entrenched overlooking the mill. 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. Bronze markers in Tanyard Creek Park and old millstones and markers at the corner of Redland Drive and Collier Rd.

It was located on the lands of Andrew Jackson Collier. Located right of Collier Road in Buckhead along Tanyard Creek, the Collier's grist mill was at the center of a key Civil War battle, the Battle of Peachtree Creek. Located in Southwest Fulton County in Chattahoochee Hills. The mill was a notable landmark in the movement of Confederate forces to the field of the Battle of Atlanta, fought July 22, 1864. at Intrenchment Creek Water Plant stood a grist mill operated by William Cobb, a DeKalb County pioneer. Just east of the Atlanta city limits at 1510 Key Rd. The ruins are gone, but the site is located southeast of Atlanta at Georgia Highway 42 and the South River. 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. The road was severed by Interstate 75.īlack's Mill Road is named for a small grist mill that was once in Dawsonville, Georgia and was owned and operated by Noah and Sarah Black. Its eastern terminus is at Georgia 120 (Roswell Road) and ascends Blackjack Mountain. Barnes Mill īarnes Mill Road is just east-northeast of Marietta. Sometimes misspelled 'Autry' (as in Gene Autry), Autrey Mill Road is along Johns Creek off Old Alabama Road about 2 miles from Medlock Bridge Road in the city of Johns Creek, Georgia, as is the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center. It is unclear whether the Arnold family operated a mill. Arnold, located on present-day Arnold Mill Road near the Little River, which is also the dividing line between Cherokee County and Fulton County. The name is associated with an Arnold Mill post office named for Givens W. West of Main Street in Woodstock, it becomes Towne Lake Parkway. 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. 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.Īrnold Mill, Georgia was located in southeastern Cherokee County, Georgia, east of Woodstock, Georgia.

Akers Mill was located on Rottenwood Creek near Vinings.

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