However, in 1850 Pace and his son-in-law P.H. The tributary creek on site may have been a free flowing water source 150 years ago. Some investigative soil exploration may be productive, but none has been initiated and is subject to NPS authority. There are some suggestive scatter of rocks about which may have been used formationally, but there are no visual evidences of a mill ruin. It was not on Rottonwood Creek at all, but on the river. Then applying the topography set of the Engineer's map - and creek line the site of Paces Mill is concluded to be at the creek line currently railed behind the Post apartment lake. The distance from Long Island and Rottenwood Creek was exactly 3/10 of a mile from each.Ī visual line was physically set to each of these two points and paced off. ![]() p.310, did a dead reckoning occur which pin pointed the likely location of Paces Mill. The water survey team took a reading at the southern tip of Long Island at mile marker 143.1, another at the mouth of Rottenwood Creek, mile marker 143.7, and in between, a reading at "Pace's Mill Site" located at mile marker 143.4. It was not until a third resource from a Georgia Water Power Survey, by B. 41, but at one time, continued across a ridge line down to the river, appearing, in theory, to be in the vicinity of Rottenwood Creek.Ī second map, found within the papers of General Samuel French (CSA) _, reflected again, a Paces Mill location clue - not on Rottenwood Creek, but below at a lessor tributary. Paces Mill was shown "generally" to have existed at the end of a road from Vinings following the line of Paces Mill Road. Sherman in 1864, located at the Library of Congress Archives, came the first real clue: However, no ruin evidences could be located along the river or Rottenwood Creek. The location of Pace's Mill converged at the termination of Paces Mill Road and within the West Palisades area. The Pace family fled the area in their advance, and the mill was most likely destroyed and burned in the Fall of the same year. It is unknown how successful the mill was until 1864, when Union forces moved into the area. annd under the Georgia Mill Act, gained some 100 acres in the process. Given Pace's propensity for economic opportunity and accumulation of property, owning and operating a mill would have been an appropriate acquisition, and likely began operation of the mill in the late1830's - early 1940's. The configuration of mills varied in size and appearance, and were dependent on a source of water to power operations. Prior to the Civil War there were 23 grist mills in Cobb County, and 5 saw mills. Initially, saw mills provided building materials, and grist mills provided the grinding of grains for flour and corn meal. (footnote) Both were instrumental in newly developing areas. The operation of a saw mill would be awarded with 500 acres. In addition to land lotteries, the State of Georgia had a standing Act from 1777, that anyone who should erect and provide operation of a grist mill within the state, would be awarded 100 acres. The period of his arrival was one of transition, as the Cherokee Indians were being removed from the area, land lotteries were being awarded to settlers, and gold had been discovered in the northwest of the state, and rumors of a railroad being built through Cobb County was materializing. ![]() ![]() He was primarily a merchant and operated a ferry on the Chattahoochee. Hardy Pace moved to the Vinings area of Cobb County in the 1830's, initially called Crossroads. Cal Dortch had provided a copy of the 1850 dam Act (see following) as well. Their research dated back to 2005, armed with union surveys and old geodetic surveys provided by Marian Blackwell. Long Vinings resident and historian Jody Smith and her husband Henry stated they had looked for a location for Pace's Mill in an area south of the I-75 overpass in the West Palidades area, but had not found the evidence thereof. Review of historical reference at Vinings Historical Society, Georgia Room of Marietta Library, and interviews with long term residents of Vinings produced some, but inconclusive, reference to thereto. Originating focus being cast on Vinings history as interfaced with the Hardy Pace family, initial question was on the origin of the street name of Paces Mill Road, with a margin notation - Why named? Visiting the Pace Mill access area of West Palisades, Chattahoochee National Park furthered the clue. Some connective comments are the theory of the author. during Sept - November 2007. Evidences may, or may not, represent all material considerations which may be available and open sourced in the future. ![]() The following is a complete set of Information, documents, and other factual inclusions within a three month intensive historic review study of Vinings, GA.
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