Joe Brown Pikes (White County)
N 34° 40.736 W 083° 40.072
17S E 255574 N 3840678
Corn mill converted to making "Joe Brown Pikes" during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM32K
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2005
Views: 31
On Sautee Creek just north of here are remains of a dam constructed as part of a grist mill owned by edwin P Williams During the War Between the States, to arm the Home Guard, Gov. Joseph E. Brown had made a great number of pikes, daggers on long poles, for close fighting. This mill was converted to the manufacture of "Joe Brown Pikes." Through church bells and old iron from a forge near Clarksville was probably used too. After the War the mill was reconverted to grinding corn.
