Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Hardy Gragg's Saw Mill Washed Away in Flood, 1916

“Saw Mill Carried Away By Spring Branch,” from the Lenoir News, as reprinted in the Monroe Journal, August 15, 1916, Monroe, N.C.

A complete saw mill outfit, belonging to Mr. Hardy Gragg was washed away by the recent flood and until now only a few small pieces have been found.

The mill was located in the Globe section and was about three-quarters of a mile up a spring branch from John’s river. The waters of this little branch got high enough to make a clean sweep of the entire outfit—boiler, engine, saw mill and all, and strange to say the whole outfit was carried down this little branch into the river and down the river so far that it has not been located.


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