This is on one of my favorite motorcycle loops, and I've stopped several times before and took pictures. Normally, you can get right up on the downstream side of the dam. But, with all the rain lately, the water is a bit high. I've been digging about for quite a while trying to find some background on this place, with no luck. Are there any of you SE folks that might have any ideas? Anyhow... on with the pics.

Looks like an old mill dam, whereabout is it? I may be able to dig up some old maps of the area.

Might be breaking protocol here, but its at 34.595609, -85.149389

I think it's an old mill, also. There looks to have been a sluice and/or mill-race on the other bank, but I never seem to happen by when the water is low enough to cross.

Posted by Wheedle Might be breaking protocol here, but its at 34.595609, -85.149389 I think it's an old mill, also. There looks to have been a sluice and/or mill-race on the other bank, but I never seem to happen by when the water is low enough to cross.

I want to say it was from Suttles Mill (long gone obviously)

It's a little south of where Suttle's mill was supposed to be. It's on Manning Mill Rd, so I'd assume it was Manning Mill. But, I have had virtually no luck finding info.

Posted by Wheedle Might be breaking protocol here, but its at 34.595609, -85.149389 I think it's an old mill, also. There looks to have been a sluice and/or mill-race on the other bank, but I never seem to happen by when the water is low enough to cross.

Nah, it's not what I'd deem 'at risk'. It's proving quite difficult to find anything on mills period. There were several in the area around the civil war and at time the economy was agricultural, primarily cotton. It'd be nice to go dig around it and hopefully find something showing its date of completion.

Posted by OscarZulu Nah, it's not what I'd deem 'at risk'. It's proving quite difficult to find anything on mills period. There were several in the area around the civil war and at time the economy was agricultural, primarily cotton. It'd be nice to go dig around it and hopefully find something showing its date of completion.

I'm hoping to go back again this summer when the water is hopefully low enough to cross over to the other bank and have a better look around at the largest part of the remaining structure.

omg , rome, anything near summerville?like a house in tolego (sp)

Posted by Maglyte omg , rome, anything near summerville?like a house in tolego (sp)

I'm a bit confused...

There's something odd about that road, wonder if a rail line ran through there once? None of the 1800's maps turn up anything.

Posted by OscarZulu There's something odd about that road, wonder if a rail line ran through there once? None of the 1800's maps turn up anything.

I can't really see any evidence of a rail line there. Manning Mill goes through a narrow pass where the ruins are. That area has always been fairly isolated due to topography. The line would have to climb out of the valley at the south end or go through two narrow gaps, where there are lines to the east and west that have a far flatter, straighter paths.