- Mill
- Water
- 1860s and later
- City of Atlanta
- Location approximate
Durand's Mill (Williams Mill)
A water-powered sawmill and factory on South Fork Peachtree Creek run in the 1860s by Samuel A. Durand. Its later owners' names survive in Williams Mill Road and Wallace Station.
The record
Marker 044-27: Frederick A. Williams (1817-1883) succeeded Durand, and the old road running southwest from the mill (now pieces of Briarcliff and Williams Mill roads, Fortune and Houston streets) long bore his name; J. F. Wallace (1840-1902) followed, and Wallace Station on the Seaboard railroad and the road to Emory were named for him. Marker 044-28 says Confederate infantry burned the bridge, and on the morning of July 20, 1864 Howard's skirmishers waded across while it was rebuilt.
Today: South Fork Peachtree Creek near Briarcliff Road.