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Paris' Mill

Screven County · dedicated 1953 · At the intersection of Millhaven Road and Gin House Road, on the right when traveling south on Millhaven Road in Millhaven.

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The earliest trade center and industrial development in interior Georgia was established here before the Revolutionary War by Francis Paris, Senior. A rick dam was constructed across the creek, of which it is said that the 400 horse power developed for the saw and feed mills was by far the greatest in the colony. The rock foundations of the old dam are still embedded in the creek about 300 yards above the present bridge. Paris sold the land, mills, and appurtenances to Seaborn Jones, of Augusta, on February 8th, 1796.

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