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“Starr’s Mill” by Dave Jenkins: One of the most beautiful, well-preserved, and visible of Georgia’s many old mills is Starr’s Mill on Whitewater Creek, about eight miles south of Fayetteville on GA Highway 85. It's also one of my very favorites. The first mill at this location was built of logs by Hananiah Gilcoat sometime before 1825, but the name “Starr’s Mill” came from Hilliard Starr, who owned the property from 1866 to 1879. The present building was erected in 1907 and was in operation until 1959. Like many Georgia mills, Starr’s Mill was powered by an underwater turbine rather than a visible waterwheel to grind corn and operate a sawmill. There was also a cotton gin on the property, and in its later years, even a dynamo that produced electricity for the nearby town of Senoia. (Text from my limited edition book Georgia: A Backroads Portrait.)

My domain is the old, the odd, and the ordinary; the beautiful, the abandoned, and the about to vanish away. I am a visual historian of an earlier America and the recorder of the interface between man and nature; a keeper of the vanishing ways of life. In a career spanning more than 50 years, I've had the privilege of photographing for some of America's leading corporations and non-profit organizations. Assignments for missions and humanitarian agencies have taken me to 28 countries on 5 continents. I've also written and photographed guidebooks to a number of U.S. cities. My articles and/or photos have been published in numerous magazines and my book, Rock City Barns: A Passing Era, was a best-seller. The second-edition of my book,...

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