Collier's Mill State Historical
Marker
Located on Collier Rd at Redland Rd, Atlanta
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COLLIER'S MILL
150 ft. down stream, on the
right bank of Tanyard Branch, stood an ante-bellum grist mill
built & operated by Andrew J. Collier, pioneer resident of
this area. (1827-1887)
A notable landmark at the
time of the Battle of Peachtree Creek -- July 20, 1864.
It stood, not only at the
center of Federal troop alignment along Collier Rd., but was
the storm-center of the conflict that raged here, since the stream
valley was a strategic approach to the Federal center toward
which the Confederate forces (Walthall's & Loring's divisions
of Stewart's Corps) made their heaviest attacks.
060-39 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 195?
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