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Seaborn Jones built a grist mill here in 1828, the first manufacturing on the Chattahoochee at Columbus. It powered some of the city's earliest hydroelectricity in the 1890s and ran until 1988, by then among the oldest working mills of its kind.
City Mills is a historical marker in Columbus, Muscogee County, erected in 1956. It is one of 92 historical markers documented in Muscogee County, among 248 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.4794, -84.9917 near Columbus. The nearest cataloged historic site is Building at 215 Ninth Street (historic place), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Gann's Pharmacy, Building at 1625 Third Avenue, and Building at 1617 Third Avenue.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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