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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...

In searching through the archives of deeds at the county, I came across this map of the town of Jasper dated March 5th, 1883. The chief engineer of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad Company, F.S. Wallace, drew this map up to demonstrate the lands that were conveyed to help facilitate the passage of the railroad through the town of Jasper. The map is below along with what I could make of the penmanship of the document. {Georgia, {Pickens County: For the purpose of e

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