The Waters Edge: Georgia's Mills | Georgia Outdoors

On this episode of Georgia Outdoors; before electricity, gas and oil powered America, the wheels of commerce were turned by water. Take a journey to the past to see remnants of a lifestyle when nature determined the place of development. From brightly painted mills to weather-beaten ruins covered in vines. Discover some of the prettiest places in the state that stand as monuments to the way we used to do business.
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[@lowrangeoverland9013]

Bring back the mills, we sure do need them and probably more in the times a head.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Georgia offers great landscapes and abundant History + Ancient History.
a NW Tennessean

[@talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372]

Love seeing all the history. Wow! Thanks for sharing

[@the_eternal_student]

I hate to hear destruction called development. Nevertheless, this was one of the most beautiful episodes of Georgia Outdoors, much too beautiful for public television. I too would like to see the grist mills.

[@the_eternal_student]

No knowledge should ever be lost.

[@TheresaBrown-dc5dt]

I grew up in Lithia Springs where the mill is on Sweetwater Creek and before the area around it became Sweetwater Park used to swim and fish above the ruins and in Austell there was Perkinson Mill on Sweetwater that was famous for it corn meal , grits and flour I don't know know now but used to find their products in the grocery stores

[@lisabarger574]

Awesome video, so much history glad to see the old ways set still working on

[@GPBGeorgiaOutdoors]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@georgiapines7906]

We live only a few miles away from Starr's Mill in south Fayette county. It's truly a lovely place.

[@letssgoexploring]

I love watching these videos but I wish you guys would put up the names of these places so I can go see them for my self

[@brianbanks7685]

Agreed

[@heidikurz6609]

Yes!

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

She tells you the name of each mill & what county its in

[@raderanthony]

No Links to the Parks Visited?!?

[@the_eternal_student]

It is hard to know what the music is in this episode and even the words in the credit are too obscured to find the music.

[@the_eternal_student]

Back when the United States produced many of its own goods.

[@the_eternal_student]

This is all the memorial we get for death of the United States which was never a country to begin with, but a society with much greater potential than what we are left with now.

[@user-rk9mx8mt1x]

The.big.water.wheel.with.rock
Laid.on.the.building.is.located.on.berry.college

[@user-rk9mx8mt1x]

Ogeechee.mill.may.be.next.to.mayfield
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