The Old Mills of the Haw River Watershed

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Weitzel Mill

Page history last edited by Mark Chilton 15 years ago

Upstream:George Findley Mill

Weitzel Mill

This millsite is just upstream of Highway 61 (actually right at the location of the former Hwy 61 alignment), on the Reedy Fork in Guilford County. The dam is washed out but major parts of the mill building remain.

Heinrich Weitzel (or Whitesell or Whitsell or Whitsett) built this mill about 1780 according to Fred Hughes Historical Map of Guilford County (1980). The ruins of the dam are just upstream of NC 61 in Guilford County. This mill is labeled as the Apple Mill by Johnson (1895).

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A Revolutionary War Battle was fought here on March 6, 1781. Gen. Cornwallis had been camped at "Clapp's Mill" on Alamance Creek, presumably the Old Clapp Mill identified on this website. Gen. Cornwallis's forces tried to cut Col. Otho Williams off from reuniting with his commander Gen. Nathanael Greene, who was at that time at Boyd Mill further up the Reedy Fork. Williams got to Weitzel's Mill first and fought a rearguard action retreating furhter north into Rockingham County and eventually regrouping with Gen. Green at the Iron Works Mill on Troublesome Creek.

Downstream:Ossipee Cotton Mill

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Old Mills of the Haw River Watershed

Alphabetical Index

*W W Roberts Mill on Rocky Branch

*Ellison Mill on trib. below Rocky Br

*Whitsett Shaw Mill on Richland Branch

*Patrick-Cunningham Mill on Mill Creek

*Moore Hopkins Mill on trib. below Mill Ck

George D Boyd Mill 2

*John Wright Mill on Candy Creek

^^George D Boyd Mill 1 on Piney Creek

^^Wade Rankin Mill on Glady Creek

*Iron Works Mill on Big Troublesome

*James Mccaleb Mill on Little Troublesome

High Rock Mill

Troxler Mill

Altamahaw Mill

The Hub Mill

*Starbuck Mill on the Reedy Fork

^^Unnamed Mill 4 on Horsepen Creek

^^Unnamed Mill 3 on Horsepen Creek

^^^Beal Sawmill on Beal Branch

^^William Coffin Mill on Brush Creek

^^Dent Mill on Brush Creek

^^John Hamilton Mill on Brush Creek

^^Hamburg Mill on Brush Creek

^^Staffords Mill on Beaver Creek

*Morehead Mill on the Reedy Fork

^^^Donnell Mill on Hunting Creek

*Hardy Mill on the Reedy Fork

*George Findley Mill on the Reedy Fork

*Weitzel Mill on the Reedy Fork

^^^Nance Mill on N Buffalo Creek

^^^Orrell Mill on N Buffalo Creek

^^^Wharton's Old Mill on N Buffalo Ck

^^^^McKnights Mill on trib. of Jordan

^^^R Apple Mill on N Buffalo Creek

^^^Cobbs Mill on N Buffalo Creek

^^^Wilson Holt Bonemill on S Buffalo

^^^J B Donnell Mill on S Buffalo Creek

^^Rankin Mill On Buffalo Creek

*Ossipee Cotton Mill on the Reedy Fork

Gerringer Mill

Iola Mill

*Old Saw Mill 4 on Dry Creek

Ireland's Mill

Glencoe Mill

Carolina Mill

Big Falls Mill

*J S Graves Mill on Stony Creek

*Sartin Mill on Stony Creek

*Murray Mill on Stony Creek

^^Hughs Mill on Jordan Creek

Sellar's Mill

Granite Mill

*Mcadams Mill on Back Creek

^^Vincent Mill on Quaker Creek

^^Dickey Mill on Quaker Creek

^^Hughes Mill on Mill Creek

^^Crawford Mill on Stag Creek

*Possible Former Mill Dam on Back Creek

*Galbraith Mill on Back Creek

Virginia Mills

^^Fields Mill on Climax Creek

*Company Mill on Big Alamance

*Curtis-Woody Mill on Big Alamance

*S Huffman Millon Big Alamance

^^Phipps Mill on a trib. of Big Alama

*Foust Mill on Big Alamance

^^^J P Huffman Mill on trib L. Alam2

^^Troxler Mill 2 on Little Alam2

^^Gilmer-Phipps Mill on Little Alam2

^^^unnamed Mill on a trib of L. Alam2

^^J C Clapp Mill on Little Alam2

*Ingle Mill on Big Alamance

^^Jobe and Williams Mill on Back Creek

^^D Huffman Mill on Back Creek

^^G Huffman Mill on Beaver Creek

^^Old Clapp Mill on Beaver Creek

*Alamance Cotton Mill on Big Alamance

^^John Huffman Mill on Gum Creek

^^Old Mill 1 on Gum Creek

*Bellemont Cotton Mill on Big Alamance

^^Coble Mill 3 on Little Alamance

^^Sellars Old Sawmill on L. Alamance

^^W F Jones Mill on Little Alamance

^^Whitsett Mill on Little Alamance

^^Harden Mill on Little Alamance

^^Rogers and Curtis Mill on Little Alamance

^^^Staley Mill on North Prong

^^^^Coble Mill 4 on Chocolate Creek

^^^^R Bowman Mill on trib. of N Prong

^^^^Garrett Mill on trib. of N Prong

^^^Sam Coble Mill on North Prong

^^^^Euliss Saw Mill on Poppaw Creek

^^^^Old Patterson Mill on Poppaw Ck

^^^^Dixon Mill 3 on Poppaw Creek

^^^Coble Mill 2on North Prong

^^^J W Clapp Millon N Pr Stinking 1/4

^^^T S Wrightsell Mill on S. Prong

^^^^M Smith Mill on a trib. of S. Pr

^^^^C M Mendenhall Mill on trib of S Pr

^^^Mt Pleasant Manf Co on S Pr St 1/4

^^Patterson Mill on Stinking Quarter

^^^Hornaday Mill on Rock Creek

^^^Albright Mill on Rock Creek

^^^Huffman Mill 2 on Rock Creek

^^Dixon Mill 2 on Stinking Quarter

Puryear Mill

*Coble Mill on Varnal's Creek

*Tate Mill on Haw Creek

*Gills Mill on Haw Creek

*Patton Mill on Haw Creek

*Alexander Wilson Mill on Haw Creek

Cedar Cliffs Mill

Saxapahaw

*Motes Creek Dam 1 on Motes Creek

*[M C Stafford Mill} on Mary's Creek

*Guthrie Mill 2 on Mary's Creek

*Unknown Mill on Mary's Creek

Elliotts Mill

*H Thompson Mill on Little Cane Creek

^D Thompson Sawmill on Tom's Creek

*Union Mills on Little Cane Creek

*Morrow Mill on Little Cane Creek

*Ward Mill on Big Cane Creek

^^Old Saw Mill 3 on Wells Creek

^^Old Saw Mill 2 on Wells Creek

*Dixon Mill on Big Cane Creek

*Snow Camp Woolen Mills on Big Cane

*Holman Mill on Big Cane Creek

^^Harper Mill on Foust Creek

*Allen Mill on Big Cane Creek

^^Little Mill on the Sourth Fork

*Lindleys Mill on Big Cane Creek

*Guthrie Mill on Big Cane Creek

*McBane Mill on Big Cane Creek

Jeanes Mill

*Oliver Lamb Mill on Collins Creek

*Hadley Mill 2 on Big Terrell's Creek

*Baldwin Mill on Big Terrell's Creek

Loves Mill

Darks Mill

Paces Mill

*Dorsett Mill on Dry Creek

*Chapin Mill on Dry Creek

Burnett-Powell Mill

Bynum Mill

Brown's Mill

Taylor-Henley Mill

Hadley Mill

Moore's Mill

*Pendergrass Mill on Robeson Creek

*Hatch Mill on Robeson Creek

*Sam Holt Mill on Robeson Creek

Hartsaw Mill

*New Hope Mill 2 on New Hope Ck

*New Hope Mill 1 on New Hope Ck

*Powerline Mill on New Hope Ck

*Johnston Mill on New Hope Ck

*Breached Dam Mill on New Hope Ck

*Patterson Mill 2 on New Hope Ck

^^Pickard Mill on Morgan Creek

^^Lloyd Mill on Morgan Creek

^^Mccauley Mill on Morgan Creek

^^^Pritchard Mill on Pritchard Mill Ck

^^Merritt Mill on Morgan Creek

^^Daniel Mill on Morgan Creek

^^Castleberry Mill on Bolin Ck

^^Yeargin Mill on Bolin Ck

^^Brockwell Mill on Bolin Ck

*Mooring Mill on New Hope Ck

*Sypart Mill on New Hope Ck

Bland Mill

Confluence with the Deep River forms the Cape Fear River.

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