Correction on Pace's Mill

...It was not oblitirated by I-75 - it was by time.

We went back with percision, and have Pace's Mill down to a geography point. The measurements of "3/10 of a mile from Rottenwood Creek" was paced off, putting the calculated location further south than adjacent to I-75. (In essense, I-75 was an expansion off the 41 bridge over the Chattahoochee constructed in the 1930's)

Then it becomes a reconstruct of WWPD (what would Pace do) of configuring a mill against the topography of options. Call it constructed sense and vision.

Go to Paces Mill parking area in West Palisades, and proceed up the trail approximately 4/10 of a mile to where the path to the left rises to Post apartments. (GPS location is 33°52'28.49"N and 84°27'1.04"W)

There is a dry stream bed which comes down from the lake above. This appears to be (within measurements) the most "logical placement" approximation of where one would put a mill. A further logic suggests that just north of this site, about 30 feet, is where a flute diversion was made, and possibly an "attempt" at a dam funnelng in the river to feed the flute to a mill. If you look up at the concentric rock formation on the hill, and into the water line at the river - it would suggest large rocks were extracted and rolled down the hill to this purpose. One can at least invision the physics possible.

What may have happened, is that the mill (as called) may not have been as operational efficient as thought and may not have been a productive venture. Certainly the construct of a dam "across" the river to Long Island, was at best a concept unable to be completed.

Location essentially matches both Civil War map references, and roughly the 1908 water survey marks off site - but leaves little, if any, physical evidence exposed.

Permission from the National Park Service to apply some archeologic scrutiny to validate site may be in the offering, but to historic credence may not suffice more than a generalized conclusion.

On to other things...