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Thursday, August 12, 1976 sCtie Atlanta Journal
ON OCMULGEE RIVER
Group Hopes to Make
Smith's Mill State Park
BY CHARLES SALTER
Journal Slate Editor
MONTICELLO, Ga.-While
the swift, treacherous waters
of the Ocmulgee River rush
over rocks with a roar like
that heard by 15th century In
dians, birds sing in the pines,
oaks, sweetgums and sour
woods on the shaded banks.
The combination of sounds
reaching the ears of two men
walking beside the swirling
stream is welcomed as a
wilderness symphony in the
tranquil setting where so
much Georgia history has
been made.
John P. Harvey Jr., 52, of
Monticello, a former DeKalb
County school teacher, points
out the famous Seven Islands,
noting that Creek Indians
operated a trading post on the
largest one, perhaps as early
as 1696.
Nearby, in the vicinity of
the historic Middle Trail, he
shows where a grist mill,
woolen mill, cotton mill and
stores stood in the mid-19th
century.
A short distance away in
the lush forest, the most vis
ible evidence of the once
thriving community looms in
the morning sunshine—a two
story. Greek Revival, rock
house built in 1849.
Harvey said that in the
early 1840s, this area near the
Jasper, Jones, Butts and Mon
roe county lines was chosen
! David K. Roach of Greene
County and his partners for
location of a grist mill.
"Later they had a woolen
mill, cotton mill, sawmill, gin
house and a sock and stocking
mill,” said Harvey. “In 1859
he (Roach) sold the mill to
S.J. Smith, who was from
Butts County near Flovilla.”
The Smiths operated the
woolen and grist mills a num
ber of years, finally selling
them and a store’ to the
Dozier family.
"The rock house was built
out of granite taken out of a
mile-and-a-half-long millrace
with slave labor,” said Har
vey. "They dug out tde gran
ite to make David K. Roach’s
home.”
He added, “The only other
one like it in the United States
is in Pennsylvania."
Dr. George Dozier, a
Flovilla physician and banker,
frequently invited Boy Scouts
and other groups to the house
for houseparties and picnics
on the river banks in 1912-19.
Harvey and other members
of the Jasper County Historic
Foundation hope that some
day the Smith’s Mill area can
become a state park and that
the rock house can be re
stored.
“On the other side of the
road were two buildings, one
for women and one for men,
built by Roach about 1843 for
the people who came to pick
up cloth and have corn
ground,” said Harvey.
"People spent the night in
these dormitories before
crossing the river on four
ferries. They were Wise
Ferry, Harris Ferry, Dozier
Ferry and Dames Ferry.”
In the heyday of Smith’s
Mill, nearly 250 persons
worked in the mills, probably
drawing no more than 50
cents a day unless they held
dollar-a-day supervisory posi
tions, Harvey said.
Late in the Civil War,
Union troops built two pon
toon bridges and also used the
ferry to cross the Ocmulgee
River.
After making the crossing,
troops dismantled the pontoon
bridges, searched the area for
Rebels and “got hold of some
corn whisky hidden in a cache
on the river.”
“In the confusion, Gus
Dozier, 6, disappeared,” said
Harvey. “A slave who was a
millhand had seen him talking
to Union soldiers.
“His brother, George
Dozier, 15, was sent to catch
the troops before they got to
Monticello. A search of the
wagons revealed young Gus
hidden there.”
Harvey said a Union soldier
told George that the troops
"thought he (Gus) was real
cute and they wanted to take
him back to Indiana as a mas
cot.”
A small church with Indian,
slave and white members
once stood on one of the
Seven Islands in antebellum
days after the land was ac
quired from the Creeks and
Jasper County was formed.
“In the 1820s when the
treaty at Indian Springs was
made with Gen. William
Mclntosh, the land was
opened up,” said Harvey.
“The Creek Indians oper
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ated a trading post on the
largest island as early as
1700. We think it was actually
started in 1690 when Carolina
traders stopped on their way
to the Chattahoochee and Ala
bama rivers.”
Three years after establish
ing the Savannah colony, Gen.
James Edward Oglethorpe
traveled along the Middle
Trail returning from a trip to
Coweta Town in present-day
Harris County en route to
Augusta.
Harvey noted that rain fall
ing on the western side of the
Middle Trail eventually trick
les into the Ocmulgee River,
while rain on the eastern side
of the wilderness road finally
reaches the Oconee River.
In a five-year period just
before World War I, when
Smith’s Mill was a popular
area for picnics and swim
ming, at least 17 persons
drowned in the swift shoal
waters.
Among the victims was the
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first wife of John Harvey’s fa
ther, John Parks Harvey. The
former Mattie Smith, grand
daughter of the man who
bought the mill from Roach,
she was drowned while she
and other picnickers at
tempted to save a little child
caught in the current.
“I believe a park here
would attract tourists, mostly
for fishing, camping and pic
nicking,” said Harvey. “I
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The Boston Tea Party dump
ed 45 tons of tea into Boston
Harbor.
would not recommend swim
ming in this area.”
Approximately 2,000 Creek
Indians lived in this vicinity
before the mills were built on
a 16- to 18-acre tract
