Site: Blake's Mill

Site: Blake's Mill is a Georgia historical marker in DeKalb County, dedicated 1986.

Shallowford Road near the North Fork of the Peachtree Creek.

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N. Fork Peachtree Creek. West of the road was the ante-bellum structure of a mill owned and operated by John Blake (1798-1854). July 18, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C. of McPherson's Army of the Tennessee [US], enroute from Roswell to Decatur, camped here -- where both McPherson and Blair had h'dq'rs. Dodge's 16th A.C. camped 1 mi. N. on the Rainey plantation where some of Sweeny's men fought a sham battle using green apples for bullets. Logan's 15th A.C. detoured 1.5 mi. N. to join Garrard's cavalry at Browning's Court House (now TUCKER), 4 mi. E. of here -- a move that began the destruction of the Georgia R.R. at Stone Mtn.

Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.

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Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1796, covering the location of Site: Blake's Mill, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1796, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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