John Hall erected and operated the old Metters water-grist mill in the mid 1800’s on Flat Swamp Creek, near what is now known as Highway 47, about five miles west of Denton. A Davidson County deed dated September 3, 1875, shows that James Metters and Noah Skeen purchased the mill and 13 ¼ acres, and James Metters later bought Noah Skeen’s share of the mill and land on September 30, 1887. The mill’s equipment was powered by an overshot master water wheel about sixteen feet high, driven by water released from a dam about three fourth of a mile upstream into a specially constructed race and then into receptacles built into the wheel. This water power turned the crude machinery that ground wheat and corn on the two buhr-stones that survived after the large wheel crumbled and washed away. The two mill stones were recovered from the creek bed in 1941 by members of the Hosea Skeen family, placed as landscape centerpieces in the yards of Gladys Skeen Marshall and Myrtle Skeen Beck, later moved to the homes of their sons John T. Marshall and John K. Beck, and eventually came into the possession of John Beck in Raleigh, who arranged to have them moved to Harrison Park as a memorial recognizing the related Skeen and Metters families through the marriage of Hosea Skeen and Elizabeth Metters Skeen.