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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29M0_praters-mill_Dalton-GA.html
Prater's Mill Dates from 1855 and is in remarkably good shape thanks to the Prater's Mill Foundation. Built by John Pitner, the grist mill and a nearby sawmill operated from a single water-powered turbine. Together the two mills carved a center of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29LZ_praters-mill_Dalton-GA.html
Prater's Mill is a restored working gristmill built by Benjamin Franklin Prater circa 1855, on land that the Cherokee called "Fish Trap Shoals". The mill is constructed of hand-hewn timbers with mortised and pegged joints. The Prater family owned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29LE_praters-mill-and-the-civil-war_Dalton-GA.html
January 19, 1861 - Georgia secedes from the Union.
October 1862 - The first Confederate troops arrive in Whitfield County.
1826 - 1864 - Benjamin Franklin Prater sells corn, hay, fodder, bacon, split rails and planks to the Confederacy for $…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29L2_praters-mill-store_Dalton-GA.html
Prater's Mill was an important commercial site, containing the grist mill for grinding corn and wheat, and also a store, post office, warehouse, cotton gin, blacksmith, gardens and numerous houses. The Prater's Mill store and the mill complex were…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29KV_water-turbine_Dalton-GA.html
Many old mills were powered by overshot water wheels, picturesque, but difficult to maintain. Prater's Mill, however, was powered by three more modern underwater turbines. One of these, a Leffel-type patented in 1862, is still completely operation…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29KL_dr-lacewells-office_Dalton-GA.html
Dr. John Franklin Lacewell (June 7, 1857 - August 19, 1937) was a horse-and-buggy doctor who never owned an automobile. He graduated from Atlanta Medical College (now Emory University) in 1887 and returned to Whitfield County. He answered house ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29K1_cotton-gin_Dalton-GA.html
The cotton "gin" (short for engine) was first patented by Eli Whitney of Massachusetts in 1793. The purpose of a cotton gin is to remove the cotton seeds from cotton fibers.
Simple ginning machines were being used prior to 1793 to cle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MGY_fort-hill_Dalton-GA.html
The Confederate "Army of Tennessee" that defended Dalton from November 1863 to May 1864 briefly returned here the following October. It was much depleted in both size and spirit. Their unsuccessful defense of Atlanta ended with its fall on Septemb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU02_old-federal-road_Dalton-GA.html
The highway crossing east and west at this point is the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular route. It led across the Indian County from the southeast boundary of the Cherokees, in the direction of Athens, toward Nashville via …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTZB_massasoit-house_Atchison-KS.html
On September 14, 1861 the "Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Co." who were the original owners and operators of the Pony Express moved their offices from the Patee House in St. Joseph, Missouri to here at the "Massasoit House." I…