Ragsdale Mill

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Ragsdale Mill
(Mt. Olivet Rd, Homer, GA)
Ragsdale Mill was built by the Reverend Francis Marian Ragsdale, brother of Captain Michael Jackson Ragsdale, during the Civil War in 1863. The millstones were quarried in France and brought into Savannah by blockade runners to bypass the U.S. Navy guarding the port, and then transported from the coast during wartime. The mill was designed to meet all the needs local farmers; millstones for grinding grain, threshing equipment to separate grain from the heads & stalks of straw, and a vertical saw under the millhouse for sawing logs into boards.

The Miller Homestead
This restored homestead is located beside the Ragsdale Mill.

Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church and Cemetery
(Mt. Olivet Rd, Homer, GA)

This church and cemetery are on land owned by the Sisk family, who also own the Ragsdale Mill pictured above.