Upstream: Hancock-Tyser Falls

39-6 Glenn Falls

Downstream: The House in the Horseshoe

Sometime after the destruction of the Hancock-Tyser Mill, a new merchant flour mill and sawmill was established about 1/2 mile downstream by Dr. R. W. Glenn, flooding the Hancock-Tyser Falls (Swain 1899). Dr. Glenn built a bridge at this site as well in 1882 or 1883, which must have been about the same time that the mill was built (Glenn v. Moore Co., 52 S.E. 58, 1905).

When the Glendon Durham & Charlotte Railroad established a depot near here in 1897 the location was named Glendon, after the Glenn family (Branson's Business Directory 1894).

Swain (1899) says that a 17 foot high dam stood here and powered a gristmill, sawmill and cotton gin; Swain makes it sound as though Glendon Flouring Mills and Glenn's Mill were two different locations, but there would not have been enough fall in the river to have accomodated two different dams; they were actually one and the same.

Saville (1924) suggested this site for the construction of a 45 foot high dam backing water all the way to High Falls, but it was never built. The report referred to the site as Glenn's Falls, making it clear that the mill dam was gone by 1924.

On aerial photos, there is pretty clearly a former dam jsut below the mouth of Womble Branch, just downstream of the bridge.

Areas for Research

When was this first built? Is there any sign of the former dam in the rapids?