Robert Jemison, Jr. (1878-1974) / The Old Mill (1927)

Robert Jemison, Jr. (1878-1974)

The Father of Mountain Brook

A man of great vision, dream and enthusiasm, Robert Jemison, Jr. was by far the greatest real estate developer of Birmingham’s 20th century. The Post-Herald newspaper dubbed him “Mr. Birmingham.”

Jemison said abut Mountain ...

The Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park

Dedicated August 6, 1933, as Pugh's Memorial Par, the Old Mill is a replica of an abandoned water-powered grist mill that would have been used by Arkansas pioneers in the 1800s. Although the Old Mill never actually operated as a ...

The Old Mill

Built in 1825

Acquired by Blair Academy in 1903

Blair Lake & The Falls completed in 1906

The Old Mill and other sites at Blair Academy have been placed on the State and National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department ...

The Old Slater Mill

The birthplace of the cotton manufacturing industry in America. Here in 1793 Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, and William Almy established the first successful cotton factory in the United States.

Marker can be reached from Roosevelt Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Down by the Old Mill Stream

Golden had a variety of businesses and industries in operation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among these were four flour mills-the Rock Mill, the Brick Mill, the Binder Mill, and the Golden Mill. Mill races, or ditches ...