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The Amazing Legacy of Harmony Mills and the ruins of Alice The ruins of a grist mill and former gold mine entrance sit adjacent to Town Creek The Harmony Mills at Alice, was the most spectacular accomplishment of the Atherton brothers. Built in 1882, this combination grist and textile mill had 800 spindles and was funded with capital of $25,000. Water flowed through a system of ditches around a mountain for more than one mile and a half to provide a drop. A wooden race

Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...

According to Dr. Kathleen Thompson, in her October 5th, 2011, Pickens Progress article about Black Communities in Tate and Jasper: “Lonesome City was located off of Highway 53, across the road from the Tate House, and deep in the woods. Families living here predominately carried the last name Patrick. Reverend Bill Patrick was raised here. In the 1910s into the 1930s this was a Black settlement. By the 1950s this had become a White farming area. Due to job losses in the marbl

Remains of the old Alice grist mill. Nowadays, if you were to drive down Salem Church Road, chances are you would have no idea that you were driving past a once-thriving community. Up until the first decade of the 20th Century, Alice was an active community with a cotton mill, grist mill, sorghum syrup mill, blacksmith shop, one-room school, and houses. The one-room school shortly before it collapsed