{"nrhp_refnum":"75000613","name":"Myrick's Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Fitzpatrick on SR 378","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fitzpatrick","county":"Twiggs County","state":"GA","lat":32.78406489050005,"lon":-83.36786384718602,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2-1/2-story weatherboarded water-powered mill on Big Sandy Creek northeast of Fitzpatrick in Twiggs County, Georgia, built about 1840 as part of General Stith Parham Myrick's plantation. The 185-acre nominated tract also includes a c.1930 grocery store, an old wooden bridge, the millpond and the raceway.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is one of the few remaining antebellum mills in Georgia in a largely unaltered condition. It also served as a social hub of a large cotton plantation and later of the rural community. It was one of only three mills in its district of Twiggs County in 1840 and also served farmers in neighboring Jones and Wilkinson counties.","narrative":"Myrick's Mill is a raised, weatherboarded mill on Big Sandy Creek in northeastern Twiggs County, Georgia, built around 1840 as part of General Stith Parham Myrick's 3,200-acre plantation. The square building has two and a half stories, a hip roof, and a one-story entrance room on the southeast. It rests on stilts now set in concrete and retains pine beams over 30 feet long, many pegged joints, and early iron hardware. A concrete-sided mill race still carries water to where the wheel once stood. Census figures from 1880 show it operating as a saw mill, flour mill and grist mill. It also served as a community center for dances and other gatherings until the 1950s. Local population loss followed the rise of the kaolin industry elsewhere, and the mill was abandoned. It was listed as one of Georgia's few largely unaltered antebellum mills. The nominated tract also includes a c.1930 store, an old plank bridge, the millpond and the raceway.","period_of_significance":"c.1840","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition described as fair: the roof is leaning and perforated with holes, though the pine flooring is sturdy and concrete reinforces the foundations. The mill operated until the 1950s, was abandoned, and saw occasional use in the 1960s; the data sheet lists it as not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.883812-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/75000613.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000613/d3978b51a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000613/d3978b51a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrick%27s_Mill_possible_foundation,_Twiggs_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrick%27s_Mill_possible_foundation,_Twiggs_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209786","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrick%27s_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16947213"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/twiggs-county/myricks-mill-75000613/"}