Hare’s Mill stood here on Cloud’s Creek as a large two-story grist mill owned by James Hare (1838-1929). Hare bought the mill from the Rinehart family in 1885 and moved it here. It ground both corn and wheat, using water power to grind corn and steam power to grind wheat, and over many years it also served as an important meeting place for the community. James and Elizabeth Black Hare had nine sons—John Allen, Samuel Jacob, Noah Ephram, Butler Black, Joseph William, Henry Benjamin, Jemmie Lee, George Tillman, and Sidney Bowles—who helped their father run the mill until it closed in 1928, when S.C. Electric and Gas Company bought land on Cloud’s Creek before building Lake Murray. The mill was demolished soon afterward.