Upriver: Hartsaw Mill
Up New Hope Creek:Sypart Mill
Bland Mill
The Bland mill site was the lowest mill on the entire Haw River watershed. The Thomas and Bland Mill belonged to B W Thomas and William Bland in 1868 (DB AN, pg 274), but earlier mills must have been here long before that. DB AP, pg 560 seems to convey Thomas's estate's interest int he property to J M Heck. Heck was an investor in iron and steel foundries and probably was connected to the Cape Fear Iron and Steel Company which later owned this property. DB AT, pg 431 contains an agreement between A J Holt and The Cape Fear Iron and Steel Company dated 1875 under the terms of which some land was granted to the Company in exchange for Holt gaining the right to operate a grist and corn mill on the east side of the Haw. It was agreed that Holt would repair the then-existing dam and that the Company would later raise the height of the dam and would have the right (presumably never exercised) to build a lock and various canals.
Swain (1899) says this mill stood just below the confluence of the Haw and New Hope Rivers (where Jordan Dam is now), although it had been destroyed by a flood in the summer of 1880 and again between then and 1899. The wooden dam was 300 feet long and 7 feet high. Changed as that landscape is, there would not be any evidence of the mill today.
Downriver: http://deepriver.pbwiki.com/Mermaid-Point
1. Bland Mill
2. Hartsaw Mill
3. Moore's Mill
4. Hadley Mill
5. Taylor-Henley Mill
6. Brown's Mill
7. Bynum Mill
8. Burnett-Powell Mill
9. Paces Mill
10. Darks Mill
11. Loves Mill
12. Jeanes Mill
13. Oliver Lamb Mill
14. Hadley Mill 2
15. Baldwin Mill
16. Chapin Mill
17. Sam Holt Mill
18. Hatch Mill
19. Pendergrass Mill
20. Sypart Mill on New Hope Creek
21. Mooring Mill on New Hope Creek
22. Williams and Sears Mill on Panther Creek?
23. Edward Council Mill on Poplar Branch?
24. E P Ferrinton Mill on New Hope Creek
25. Dillard Mill on Beaver Ck
26. Quishenberry Mill on Cub Creek
27. Edward Council Mill on Poplar Branch
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