The first grist mill on Big Durbin Creek was built about 1813 for John Bruce, who died in 1818, a veteran of the American Revolution who also ran a sawmill and woolen mill there. The present mill, built by slave labor before 1860, was made of heart pine with a granite foundation and was built for Jesse K. Stone, who lived from 1825 to 1899; it was known as Stone's Mill until his death. The mill complex was sold to R.B. Holland in 1899 and then to the Jones family soon afterward. Walter T. Jones ground corn and wheat, ran a cotton gin, and operated a small grocery store there for many years. Along with the shoals, rocks, and a nearby covered bridge, the grist mill was a favorite gathering place in the vicinity until it shut down in the 1950s.