Joshua Lee-NSCD-Lanier Co
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N 31° 02.170 W 083° 05.745
17R E 299981 N 3435496
Located at the entrance to Banks Lake Outpost at 307 W Highway 122
Lakeland, GA.
Waymark Code: WMC033
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2011
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Joshua Lee (1722-1855)
Joshua Lee built the first grist mill on this location in c1830 in what was Lowndes County. He owned five and one half Land lots (2.069 acres) which were not yet free of Indians. He built a low level dam across a stream flowing through his property. The water flooded the land around the ancient cypress trees where a natural pocosin existed probably as a result of tidal action of the ocean thousands of years ago. His mill afforded the farmers a place to grind their grain and gin their cotton without going a great distance. The Mill was located on the old stagecoach road from Waycross to Thomasville. Farmers and merchants who gathered at this location established it as a trade center. A post office in 1838 established the town of Alapaha, but changed to Milltown in 1857 and later to Lakeland in 1925. The legacy of this property is the remembrance of the pioneers who came to this land and created a community, and of their descendants who wish to protect the land.
This marker sponsored by The National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century John Howell Sr Chapter 2004 and placed by the descendants of the Lee family.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: none
Date: 2004
Sponsor: .The National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century John Howell Sr Chapter and descendants of the Lee family
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