Howell's Mills State Historical
Marker
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Located on Howell Mill Rd. at Peachtree Creek
bridge, Atlanta
33.823616, -84.41593
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HOWELL'S MILLS
A notable ante-bellum land-mark
established 1852, by Judge Clark Howell (1811-1882). Two buildings
-- grist and sash-sawmills -- which stood on the N. bank, and
in the bend of, Peachtree Cr. 1000 ft. west of the present bridge.
The old road crossed the creek
on a wooden bridge to the west of the present highway and bridge.
Surviving the war, the mills burned in 1879. They were the center
of a rural community with a P.O. (1876-1891). Another enterprise
was Foster's Woolen Mill, established circa 1880 -- which stood
on the S. bank of the creek, to the W. of this marker.
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060-51 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL MARKER 1989
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