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Boyd Mill Place, also known as Davenport's Mill and Hearon's Mill, is the site of a historic
grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...
constructed circa 1870 in
Weston, Georgia Weston is an unincorporated community in Webster County, Georgia, United States, located twenty-three miles southwest of Americus, Georgia, Americus. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. In 2009, the former town was disincorporated and consoli ...
in
Webster County, Georgia Webster County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 Census reflected a population of 2,799, making it the third-least populous county in Georgia. The county seat is Preston. History Web ...
. The mill was built by John Boyd and operated from c.1870 to 1963. Water supply for the mill is behind a earthen dam. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on September 24, 2009. It is located at 580 Mill Pond Road. The listing includes four
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
and one other contributing structure. It includes the grist mill, a New South Cottage-style house for the miller (c.1910), and associated outbuildings: a pole barn (1993), a shed, a chicken house.


See also

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Webster County, Georgia


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Boyd Mill Place photograph
Grinding mills in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures in Webster County, Georgia Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Industrial buildings completed in 1870 1870 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-struct-stub