Mosteller's Mills

Mosteller's Mills is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1959.

At the intersection of Poplar Springs Road and South Cass Street, on the right when traveling east on Poplar Springs Road in Adairsville.

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Five miles NE on State Highway 140 a notable plantation and manufacturing center of the 1860's. The Federal 23rd Corps, left wing of Sherman's forces [USA] marching southward from Resaca, having crossed at Field's Mill, Coosawatee River, enroute to Cassville, camped at Mosteller's May 18, 1864. Butterfield's Div., of the 20th Corps [USA] having crossed at Field's, also marched by Mosteller's. Geary's and William's Divisions, 20th Corps, were joined at Adairsville by Butterfield.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1856, covering the location of Mosteller's Mills, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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