Mill Details

Suber Corn Mill

Greenville Co. | South Carolina | USA
Known Dates: 1908, replaced a 1860's mill
Township: Chick Springs Twp.
Watersource: Trib. to Mountain Creek.

Official Website: www.scmills.com/subers.php
Location / Directions

Suber Corn Mill

This mill is located at 2002 Suber Mill Road, south of US 29 on Cr 540, then left on Suber Mill Road in Greer, which is northeast of Greenville. The mill is on the left downhill befors crossing the stream.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The highway parallels the row of mill buildings and is about 50 yards to the left of the photo.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The downhill most building, they all seem connected, appears to be the office of the still working mill. The truck weighing scale is below this, near the creek-see third last photo.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The approximately 12' X 16" steel overshot wheel is positioned behind the mill structures, not quite midway up the line of structures from the office.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The wheel is steel, all except for the arms, which are made of wood. Eight wooden spokes on each side of the wheel, which itself may narrow slightly from the axle (24" wide) to the outside of the wheel at the buckets ( about 16" wide).

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The wheel and the sluice box providing the water supply from a small stream that originates most likely beyond the north side of US 29/ W Wade Hampton Blvd. and flows into Mountain Creek eventually.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The grinding room inside the mill. There are two sets of stones pictured. One probably for cornmeal and the other for grits.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The main run of stones has white corn being ground, corn being added at the desired rate.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

Most probably the owner, James H. Suber, lifting the lid to the cornmeal bin.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

A bag that will eventually be filled with 10 pounds of Suber's Old Style enriched white, self-rising, cornmeal.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The tuck scale used to weigh before being loaded, then after being loaded. The result is the weight of the load minus the tare (weight of the empty truck.)

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

A solid piece millstone by the entrance to the mill.

Suber Corn Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 10/22/2010

The mill buildings from a little different angle, the office on the extreme right. The present mill was built in 1908 by Walter Hillary Suber and still going strong in 2010.GPS: 34' 55.55N, 82' 15.51W 994'/303 meters elevationGreenville Quadrangle

 
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