Upriver: Ireland's Mill
Glencoe Mill
The first and second wooden Glencoe Mill dams.
James Adams built his grist mill here at “the Great Bend” in the Haw before 1809 (ODB 13, pg 273). He sold the mill to Daniel Huffman in 1819 (ODB 17, pg 313). Before 1854, Huffman built a new dam, replacing “the old Adams dam” (ADB 2, pg 172) remnants of which are probably under the pond of the present dam. The “Company Mill,” as it was then known (Raleigh Standard 9/2/1863), changed hands twice during the 1860’s (DB 3, pg 403; ADB 6, pg 21). In 1878, the Vincent family sold the site to the Holts (DB 7, pg 348), who named it Glencoe. The Holts used the pre-existing 320 foot long, 9 foot high dam (Swain 1899) and extended the 100 yard race by another 500 yards, moving the mill from the island to the mainland. The dam was rebuilt in 1909 in wood and rebuilt again in concrete in 1951.
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Two lots are for sale in the restored village:
http://www.presnc.org/buyproperty/central/Glencoe_Mill_Village/Glencoe_Mill_Village.pdf
More information on Glencoe:
http://www.presnc.org/GlencoeMill/
Yet more information on Glencoe:
http://bitwisegifts.com/glencoenc/glencoe.htm
Glencoe is also home to the Textile Heritage Museum:
http://www.textileheritagemuseum.org/
Downriver:Carolina Mill
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