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Sarah_Liz
May 14, 2009

Starr's Mill

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This is my entry for the 2-page sketch challenge this month. I took these pics a few years ago and am finally getting around to scrapping them. Journaling reads:

"Starr's Mill, just a few miles north of Senoia, is probably one of the most famous -- or at least the most-photographed -- sites on the old McIntosh Trail, featured in numerous magazines and even in the Reese Witherspoon film "Sweet Home Alabama." The property that became Starr’s Mill was owned by Hananiah Gilcoat who built the first mill here before his death in 1825. This site, on Whitewater Creek, was less than a mile from the boundary between Creek Indian lands and the State of Georgia. Hilliard Starr, who owned the mill from 1866 until 1879, gave the site its current name. After the first two log structures burned, William T. Glower built the current building in 1907. This mill operated until 1959, using a water-powered turbine instead of a wheel, to grind corn and operate a sawmill. The Starr’s Mill site also included a cotton gin and a dynamo that produced electricity for nearby Senoia. There's also a dark side to the Starr's Mill legacy, however. Starr's Mill is the site of one of Fayette County's most notorious unsolved murders. George Lynch, the mill caretaker for many years, was found unconscious at the mill on Nov. 1, 1966. He died the next day, and an autopsy later determined that he had suffered a blow to the head. But that hasn’t stopped people from hanging out there. Starr’s Mill is a very popular site for fishing and picnicking. In the 1950s local residents could purchase a permit to fish for $10 per year. By the 1970s, the cost to fish was one dollar a day. People still fish there, but now it's free of charge……………………………….10-27-07"

I used pp's by Daisy D's- I've used these several times before but they went so perfectly with these pics I just had to use them again. I cut out the roosters from a piece of pp. The flourishes were also hand cut. The chicken wire is a stamp by Stampington & Co.- the set is called Bird Sanctuary. My mom and I saw these at our LSS and fell in love with them- they actually weren't for sale, the owner had them in her scrap room. But being the good customers we are (and the fact that no one else had ever used them) she decided to part with them hehe. Anyway...the grass is also a stamp. One we've had forever- it's wooden, but I still like it. Sorry for that shadow in the middle of the layout- I think the pages must have gotten a little bit separated.

Thanks for looking!


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