Price's Mill, Watermill in Parksville, US.
Price's Mill is a gristmill located along Stevens Creek in Parksville, built with traditional wooden construction and equipped with mechanical systems for grain processing. The structure harnesses water power to operate its original milling equipment.
David Calliham, born in Virginia, acquired land on Stevens Creek around 1768 and established a gristmill there; he died before 1784. A cotton gin and a flour mill later operated nearby but were destroyed by floods. The present two-story frame building dates from the 1890s, and R. A. Price ran the mill from 1910 until his death in 1968, when his son John M. Price took over. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1972.
The mill carries several names from its past operators: Calliham's, Stone's, Park's and Price's. R. A. Price, who ran it from 1910, took a toll of the meal ground for farmers, keeping part of the grain as payment. His son John M. Price later sold white and yellow cornmeal under the mill's own label in McCormick and Greenwood County stores.
The mill stands about 2 mi (3 km) east of Parksville on Price's Mill Road (SC 33-138) at Stevens Creek. A 2003 travel guide reported it no longer operating, so there are no tours or set visiting hours; the frame building, brick piers and 1913 concrete dam are seen from the road.
The mill's two 42-inch burr stones sit in a wooden housing: the upper runner stone has a round hole, the lower bedstone a square one, and the stones could be raised or lowered to set how coarse the meal came out. A steel turbine drives them through a 50-foot shaft and a wooden cartwheel gear beneath the building.
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