Mingus Mill is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on June 27th, 2016.
Mingus Mill
Mingus Mill is located in the heart of Great Smokey National Park. ... more
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Mingus Mill
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Phyllis Taylor
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Photograph - Photography
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Mingus Mill is located in the heart of Great Smokey National Park.
The Mingus Mill we see today is nestled among trees, but, in its heyday, the mill was surrounded by cleared fields and crops. Although the Mingus family, who moved into the Oconaluftee Valley in the 1790s, probably built an earlier mill on this site. The present structure was completed in 1886. The family paid $600 to millwright contractor Sion Thomas Early to build the mill in three months. The mill's distinction was its metal turbine, an improvement on the traditional wooden waterwheel that made Mingus Mill one of the most advanced in the Smokies.
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