Meadow's Mill
Lee Co. | Alabama | USA
Watersource: Halawakee Creek.
Meadow's Mill
Take either Us 80/Ga Sh 8 or US 280 west of Columbus, Ga. Stay with US 80/Sh 8, after intersection with US 280, another 10-12 miles, turning north on Sh 169. After about 9 miles, turn right/north on Ch 27. Continue about i mile to Meadow Mill community. Ask locally for directions to the mill.
This is the frount of the mill and it was taken about 10 yrs ago. It was a corn mill that operated up to sometime in the 1950's.
Original equipment cotton ginning machine inside the mill. From the equipment pictured, it must also done its share of cotton ginning.
Cotton ginning machine from the pulley and belt end. Some preservation efforts have been taken place, possibly to create a heritage site.
Original Improved Clipper Cottonseed Cleaner piece of equipment inside the mill.
The mill was in the process of being renovated into a private dwelling in March 2008. The mill is all mortise & tenon constrution, no metal nails, using hand hewn timbers.
The mill from the upstream side on Halawakee Creek. The Halawakee Creek Covered Bridge, a 140' covered bridge that burned in 1973, used to cross the Halawakee Creek on Tillery Road just upstream from the dam. The bridge was two spans of Town Lattice construction and was under consideration for preservation when it burned.
The headrace comes off a very impressive stonework dam built across the Halawakee.
The rear of the mill shows some scaffolding being employed in the renovation/conversion effort being performed by J. Marsh Enterprises of Opalika, Alabama.
The impressive stone worked dam that now contains the backwaters oif the Bartlett's Ferry Dam.
The lower door in the front of the mill is a Dutch style door.
No doubt the offices of the mill just south of the mill. The sign on the building reads: Meadows Mill, O. H. Story, owner.