Gresham's or Sixes Mill

Located on Sixes Rd about 2/10 mile west of I-575. This is on private property and you can only take pictures through a fence.

The mill at Sixes has a history as long as north Georgia itself. Before the Land Lottery of 1832 divided the Cherokee Nation up to land-greedy Georgians, a group of men lived in the area and worked in relative secracy, perhaps for ten years or more. The area is known for its gold vein (part of the vein that created the Georgia Gold Rush in 1829).

This was also a military removal encampment for the Georgia Militia during the "Trail of Tears" in 1838. The current mill in this area, called by many names, was built originally in 1820 by gold prospectors and rebuilt in 1878 and 1880.

Although Cherokee County was originally organized in 1830, by that time gold mines were attracting settlers from the east. Sixes Mine, on the site of present-day Sixes Mill, was one of the first in the area. The gold from this mine was noted as some of the purest in the state. In fact, according to White's 1849 statistical abstract it was second only to the gold found in Carroll County. Other mining operations were in production along the Etowah River (Franklin Gold Mine) and the Little River.