Myrick's Mill

Myrick's Mill is a Georgia historical marker in Twiggs County, dedicated 1954.

On Myricks Mill Road 0.2 miles south of Hammock Road/Fountain Road, on the left when traveling north in Jeffersonville.

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This old mill has been in operation in the same building for at least 150 years. In 1825 on his visit to Georgia, Marquis de LaFayette stopped here and found this mill grinding corn and making unbolted flour. As soon as he reached a city market, he sent back a piece of silk so the mill could bolt its flour and provide the people of this section with better food. The General's thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated by the early settlers. For a number of recent years this mill has been used only for grinding corn.

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1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1825 · Georgia and Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1824, covering the location of Myrick's Mill, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1824, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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