Falls Mill - Franklin Co. Tennessee

hundreds of grist mill pictures now available for you to see. Also great information about mills and mill pictures.

Millpictures.com > Listings >Tennessee>Franklin Co.

Falls Mill
Mill No: Tn_26_01

State -	Tennessee
County -	Franklin Co.
Township -	u/k
Year -	1873
Water Source -	Factory Creek

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - Falls Mill was completed in 1873 for Robert N. Mann and Azoariah R. David. It replaced an older cotton spinning factory built here about 1840. Bricks for the building were molded and fired on site

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 Falls Mill was completed in 1873 for Robert N. Mann and Azoariah R. David. It replaced an older cotton spinning factory built here about 1840. Bricks for the building were molded and fired on site

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - Timbers were sawed on an

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 Timbers were sawed on an "up-and-down" sash sawmill, lap-jointed, and pegged together. Mann and David and their successors, the Lucas family, spun cotton into thread and carded wool here until about 1906, using water power. Coarse cloth was also produced for a short time.

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - Women were primarily employed, working 6 to 10 months a year, and were paid $2 a week for a 72-hour work week in the early 1880's at the Falls Mills Manufacturing Company. Above see the date insribed on the door lintel, Man & David-1873.

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 Women were primarily employed, working 6 to 10 months a year, and were paid $2 a week for a 72-hour work week in the early 1880's at the Falls Mills Manufacturing Company. Above see the date insribed on the door lintel, Man & David-1873.

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - A few years after the mill closed in 1906, it was reactivated by the Lucas and Kieth families as a cotton gin. By this time the community of

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 A few years after the mill closed in 1906, it was reactivated by the Lucas and Kieth families as a cotton gin. By this time the community of "Falls Mill" had grown around it, boasting a seperate flour mill, blacksmith shop, stores, and houses

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - The ginning equipment was housed in another building, and the mill was used for power, bale storage, dances, and a skating rink. World War II brought and end to this enterprise. Looking down on the top of the waterwheel.

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 The ginning equipment was housed in another building, and the mill was used for power, bale storage, dances, and a skating rink. World War II brought and end to this enterprise. Looking down on the top of the waterwheel.

Pictures by: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 - The mill has been restored and has been converted to a grist/flour mill, something it never was down through the years. The earlier grist mill had been in a different building, now demised. Grain is actually ground with water powering the 32' waterwheel and mill products can be purchased at the mill store owned and operated by John & Jane Lovett, Spoom members. John is on the Board of Directors for the Spoom organization. Check at www.Spoom.org for further particulars about mill preservation & restoration.

Picture: Hugh Allen 04/12/2007 The mill has been restored and has been converted to a grist/flour mill, something it never was down through the years. The earlier grist mill had been in a different building, now demised. Grain is actually ground with water powering the 32' waterwheel and mill products can be purchased at the mill store owned and operated by John & Jane Lovett, Spoom members. John is on the Board of Directors for the Spoom organization. Check at www.Spoom.org for further particulars about mill preservation & restoration.

Directions: Located SW of Belvidere, Tennessee & SW of Winchester. From Belvidere, go SW on US 64/Sh 15/David Crockett Hwy. for about 5 miles, turn right on Old Salem-Lexie Road, go one mile or more to the mill at 134 Falls Mill Road.

"Think of my prayer as sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted hands as an evening sacrifice."
Psalm 141:2 CEV

<< Back to the list