Kingsport Milling, Kingsport, Tennessee.
N 36° 33.250 W 082° 32.881
17S E 361458 N 4046531
Millstone from the old Kingsport Mill on display along Reedy Creek on the Greenbelt in Kingsport, TN.
Waymark Code: WMNRXB
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2015
Views: 1
"Capt. Joseph Everett built the first mill in 1814.
• Andrew Gibson purchased the mill in 1851 and gave the area his name.
• In 1915, Roby Anderson Milam, son of Thomas L. Milam — a miller from Elizabethton — purchased the mill for $3,000.
• The elder Milam had patented a “secret formula” for flour in 1879, and he called his product “Gold Standard Flour.”
• 100 years later that flour continued to be produced at the Kingsport Milling Co.
• Roby Milam operated the Kingsport Flour Mill until his death in 1947. Within a few years, his family decided to find a new operator for the mill. Former Sullivan County Commissioner Ralph Harr briefly leased the mill. And in 1951 Roby Milam’s daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Hicks, assumed the lease — and went on to operate the Kingsport Milling Co. until 1979."
Type of mill: Water Mill
What did this millstone make?: Flour
Status of Stone: Public Display
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