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Harmon Cox Mill

Page history last edited by Mark Chilton 16 years ago

Upstream: None known.

 

Harmon Cox Mill on Millstone Creek

 

Downstream: Hinshaw Town Road Bridge

 

William Cox died in early 1767 leaving his son Harmon Cox “that whole tract of land, on the East side of Deep River, whereon he now lives” (Orange Co. Will Book A, page 53), evidently with no mill then on the property. Harmon Cox probably built a mill on Millstone Creek around 1770, but certainly before 1782 (State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XXII, pp 216 & 219).

 

In the 19th century, this site had both a gristmill on the south bank and a lumber mill on the north bank. The dam washed out in the 1920's, but major parts of it are still evident just downstream of the NC-22 bridge. It is now the property of Bill Johnson and Emily Cox Johnson.

 

William Cox built an earlier mill on Mill Creek just west of this site on the opposite side of the Deep which he left to Harmon Cox's brother Thomas.

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