Collier's Mill

One hundred fifty feet downstream, on the right bank of Tanyard Branch, stood an ante-bellum grist mill built and operated by Andrew J. Collier, a pioneer resident of this area, who lived from 1827 to 1887. A notable landmark at the time of the Battle of Peachtree Creek on July 20, 1864, it stood at the center of Federal troop alignment along Collier Road and became the storm-center of the conflict here, because the stream valley was a strategic approach to the Federal center, toward which Confederate forces in Walthall’s and Loring’s divisions of Stewart’s Corps made their heaviest attacks.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States