The Bean's Mill site was owned by Kotch,ar Yoholo in 1832, and in the late 1830s Moses Wheat and his son Francis owned saw and grist mills there; Francis died in 1838 from an accident at the mills. In 1852 the property belonged to John 'Jack' Floyd and his son James C., and in 1858 John sold his share to James, who took Hiram Murphy as a partner. The grist mill washed out in 1874 and was replaced with a structure on stone foundations above normal high water, and the mill remained in the Floyd family until 1899. Here in 1897 the first iron bridge in Lee County was built. In 1903 George W. Bean bought the mill and operated it until his death in 1952; about 1910 he installed an iron overshot wheel to replace the old turbine, and later the dam height was raised two feet. On March 30, 1939, FDR stopped his motorcade on the way to Warm Springs for a visit. In 1989 John M. Ross purchased the deteriorated mill with 80 acres and reconstructed it to operating condition in 1997. On October 1, 1997, it was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. It is the only one left of several mills once located on Halawakee Creek.