Upriver:Jeanes Mill
Up Big Terrell's Creek:Baldwin Mill
Up Collins Creek: Oliver Lamb Mill
Love's Mill
Downriver:Darks Mill
There are remains of at least four dams near the mouth of Terrell's Creek. Two breached dams stand near the head of a series of islands about 0.8 miles above Terrell's Creek, diverting water into the left-most channel of the river. About 0.6 miles above the creek, the ruins of another dam extend all the way across the river. About 100 yards below the mouth of the creek there is a fourth ruined dam extending all the way across the river.
Collins Jr. obtained permission to build a grist mill on the left side of the Haw in 1759 (OCM Jun 1759) at the site known as Collins Ford (Aug 1760). There was a mill on the right bank here as early as 1790 (CDB E, pg 17), but it was apparently not operational when Robert Love bought the site in 1847 (CDB AG, pg 440). Love had rebuilt the mill by 1870 (Ramsey 1870). By 1899, the dam was 700 feet long with a 400 yard millrace powering a gristmill and saw mill (Swain 1899).
The buttress of the dam can be seen on the right bank running out toward an island.
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
21. Mooring Mill
22. Williams and Sears Mill
23. Edward Council Mill
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