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Hightower Mills and Falls near Rockmart, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
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Hightower Mills and Falls near Rockmart, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013) |
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| Stone ruins of the cotton gin on left, Hightower Falls to right. |
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| A similar view from 1901. Cotton gin on the left; grist and woolen mill building (now gone) at right on the creek below the waterfall. Source: Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives, Office of Secretary of State |
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| Hightower Falls |
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| Footbridge, with mill ruins and falls beyond... |
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| Approaching the ruins of the cotton gin/mill... |
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| View through a window... |
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| Door opening with brick arch |
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| A variety of images taken from inside the gin/mill ruins: |
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| Forsythia next to the outside wall. Another wall, perhaps part of an earlier structure, is visible in the background. |
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| A different angle on the ruin... |
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| Reflection of the falls in the pool... |
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| A view through the trees from downstream |
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| A trail climbs the steep ridge and loops around upstream from the waterfall: |
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| Looking down on the ruins |
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| Remains of an old mill dam upstream from the top of the falls. |
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| Panorama of the ruined upper dam. I have an old photo of another small dam at the upper lip of the main falls, but saw no remains of it. |
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| Boulders alongside Euharlee Creek, above the falls. |
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| Coming down the ridge on the other side, behind the ruins, I spotted the remains of another small dam on a branch that feeds into the main creek. |
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| Back in the main gorge, I wandered around some more: |
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| A close-up view of Hightower Falls |
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| Sycamore bark |
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| Mill dam spillway |
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| Footbridge and flowering tree |
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| Pink Camellia |
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| St. Francis in the garden |
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| One final view of the falls... |