Meese Mill - Pickens, SC
N 34° 55.279 W 082° 45.753
17S E 339001 N 3865735
Quick Description: Meese Mill is an old water mill located northwest of Pickens, South Carolina, USA.
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2008 4:52:18 AM
Waymark Code: WM4ZRM
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Long Description:The following information about Meese Mill comes from
Backroads of South Carolina by Paul M.
Franklin and Nancy Mikula:
The original mill on this site was probably another overshot
mill similar to Hagood Mill (not surprising considering it was also
built by Hagood). Later, this mill was bought by Bob Meese and
renamed Meese Mill. In the 1930s, it was rebuilt as a turbine mill
and it remained running until 1964. In more than a century of
operation, Meese Mill ground both wheat and corn, and it operated
as a hammer mill.
Today, Yoder's at Meese Mill serves just as practical a
purpose -- filling the hungry bellies of backroads wanderers. On
the third Saturday of each month - from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
coinciding with the public hours of the Golden Creek and Hagood
mills - the Mennonite Yoder family, along with a small army of
their friends and helpers, serve a wonderful country barbecue-style
lunch with home-baked desserts here. The meals are legendary, and
it's best to arrive early to avoid the long lines at the door.
Diners eat at tables scattered in the various rooms of the
pleasantly decorated mill, and there are locally made crafts and
country foods for sale throughout the building. An open porch at
one end of the rambling building offers a pleasant view of the
woods and rushing stream, which once powered the mighty turbines
that ground corn and wheat for a hungry nation.