The National Park Service notes that "there is little information known about Aker's Mill...," for which this may, or may not, provide some directional interest.According to Historical Archaeology in Georgia, Unv of Ga. Sept 2004, p.108; "... identified mill remains associated with the Akers/Winship mill complex on Rottonwood Creek (Wheaton and Reed 1993a), as a complex consisting of at least two mill sites, was developed shortly prior to the Civil Was. The two mills were sold to the Akers family, Atlanta area grocers in 1873, who appear to have used these mills for the production of flour and feed for their stores…" So far, there has been no direct tie to a any grocery in Atlanta, bearing the name Aker or Akers. However, there is an association (although likely unrelated), that men were fed "Akers bread, "
Open to discussion... Did an Akers buy the mill(s) from Winship? Was there a partnership of sorts? Winship (Winship Machinery Co., Atlanta), had the capacity to possible foundry parts for a mill endeavor, but was not directly in any type of food producing mill business (known).
If Aker's didn't buy the mill until 1873, what's it doing on a Civil War map above? ummm
