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On North Fork Peachtree Creek, west of the road, stood the antebellum mill owned and operated by John Blake (1798-1854). On July 18, 1864, Blair’s 17th A. C. of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee, en route from Roswell to Decatur, camped here, where both McPherson and Blair had headquarters. Dodge’s 16th A. C. camped 1 mi. north on the Rainey plantation, where some of Sweeny’s men fought a sham battle using green apples for bullets. Logan’s 15th A. C. detoured 1.5 mi. north to join Garrard's cavalry at Browning's Court House, now Tucker, 4 mi. east of here, a move that began the destruction of the Georgia R. R. at Stone Mtn.
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