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From: Terry Gibson <tgibson@brunsco.net>
To: info@rockinghamremembered.com
Date: May 25, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: old great falls mill pictures
As I was browsing your sight, I came across the pictures that Ms. Perry
had taken of the old Great Falls Mill. This brought back some old
memories of my childhood because the house I was raised in until I was
13 was just up the street (where the Day’s Inn now stands). I can
remember the mill being used to store cotton bales in during the ‘50â
€™s, and watching trucks coming and going from our front porch. As
well as I can remember, there was a concrete stone near the top of the
old tower that had the year 1869 inscribed on it. I had been told by
some of the Gore family that the original mill was burned when the
contingent of Sherman’s army came through that area, and then the
mill was rebuilt in 1869. I can remember my brothers taking me hunting
in the woods surround the mill, and was amazed at the waterfall off the
old Great Falls pond. The bridge on highway 220 right before the
intersection with highway 74 would have been just about midway the
pond. There is quite a history of the old mill, but I just wanted to say
that it is good to see pictures of “childhood memories�.
Thanks to Ms. Perry for sharing these photos: Terry Gibson, Ocean
Isle Beach, N.C. My e-mail address is: terryg@2khiway.net.
To: info@rockinghamremembered.com
Date: May 25, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: old great falls mill pictures
As I was browsing your sight, I came across the pictures that Ms. Perry
had taken of the old Great Falls Mill. This brought back some old
memories of my childhood because the house I was raised in until I was
13 was just up the street (where the Day’s Inn now stands). I can
remember the mill being used to store cotton bales in during the ‘50â
€™s, and watching trucks coming and going from our front porch. As
well as I can remember, there was a concrete stone near the top of the
old tower that had the year 1869 inscribed on it. I had been told by
some of the Gore family that the original mill was burned when the
contingent of Sherman’s army came through that area, and then the
mill was rebuilt in 1869. I can remember my brothers taking me hunting
in the woods surround the mill, and was amazed at the waterfall off the
old Great Falls pond. The bridge on highway 220 right before the
intersection with highway 74 would have been just about midway the
pond. There is quite a history of the old mill, but I just wanted to say
that it is good to see pictures of “childhood memories�.
Thanks to Ms. Perry for sharing these photos: Terry Gibson, Ocean
Isle Beach, N.C. My e-mail address is: terryg@2khiway.net.
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