Upstream:None known.
Staffords Mill
Shown by Johnson 1895 on Beaver Creek. I assume this is the same mill known as the Old Mill of Guilford:
http://www.oldmillofguilford.com/index.htm
Per the above website: In 1767, Daniel Dillon built a small tub mill on Beaver Creek; Rowan County had granted him a license to build the mill on January 10, 1764 : "Ordered that Daniel Dillin have License to Build a Publick Grist Mill on the Reedy Fork of Haw River at the mouth of Beaver Creek." The original tub mill and dwelling on 175 acres was sold to Joel Sanders for $900 in 1808. In 1819, Sanders moved the mill 500 feet down stream and built a new dam across the creek, which increased the millpond to 10 acres. The new mill was designed as a merchant corn and wheat mill with an overshot wheel to replace the small tub mill. In 1913, the mill was purchased by K. L. Hendrix who later converted the mill to a roller mill and replaced the water wheel with a turbine. In 1932, state highway 68 was built between the dam and the mill. To keep the mill in operation, the long overhead wooden flume, which carried water from the dam to the mill, was replaced by a 26" diameter steel pipe which ran under the new road. Clarence E. Bailes purchased the mill in 1954. Bailes removed the roller mill machinery and replaced the turbine with a 24’ x 4’ Fitz overshot water wheel which still operates today. In 1977, the mill was sold to the current owners who continue to operate the mill on a full-time basis.
from: http://www.oakridgenc.com/vertical/Sites/%7BB40CD8E5-8C50-413B-A22C-08FF9491AB13%7D/uploads/%7BF8931DC3-8A92-4D8F-8C09-D2CE1EBAE628%7D.DOC
In January 1781, General Nathaniel Greene was being pursued from South Carolina across North Carolina by General Cornwallis and had gotten safely across the icy waters of the Yadkin River. General Greene hurried across Guilford and Rockingham counties to put the Dan River between himself and Cornwallis, leaving Lee to harass Cornwallis in his pursuit. On the night of February 11th, Lt Col,. Banastre Tarleton separated his Dragoons from the main army of Cornwallis and moved eastward, camping at Daniel Dillon’s mill on the confluence of Beaver Creek and Reedy Fork, to get grinding done.
Daniel Dillon was granted a 552 acre tract on Reedy Fork and Beaver Creeks by the Earl of Granville in 1759 and Rowan County ordered that Daniel Dillon have license to build a public grist mill. Hughes shows this as the Daniel Dillon Mill.
Downstream:Morehead Mill on the Reedy Fork.
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