23 comments

  1. Karl Volk

    This is a wonderful site & much appreciated, Thank you!

  2. Linnea Robinson Israel

    Mark Rickard, is this your family mill?

  3. Annette Wells

    My Grandmother talked of going to the mill.

  4. Donald Wheeles

    Remember going to the mill and having cornmeal ground.

    1. Alabama Pioneers

      That’s why our meals tasted so good back then. Everything was so fresh.

  5. Georgia Brown McKay

    I had a friend who told the story of taking corn to the mill for his dad . He said it was so exciting because his dad finally said he was old enough to be responsible enough to take some of the chores for the family ! The corn was taken to the grist mill to be made onto corn meal which was a necessity for their large family . When he got home safely his dad asked how he “made out” at the mill . He told his dad that he saw the miller steal cans of corn but when he turned around I got it back ! This was the toll charges for grinding the corn ! LOL

  6. Larry Wiginton

    Earnie, call you remember going to Ford’s mill. Of coarse you wasn’t raised on a farm, but you could have ventured off down there anyway.
    Trying to think of the one armed man’s name that ran the mill. Can you remember. WIG

  7. Tommy May

    Funny how the posted photo of the old mill in Mtn. Brook, AL… It was never a working mill… LOL

  8. Marsha Scheidt

    Aunt Ann Howle, did the Beasons have a mill?

  9. Ann Howle

    Yes, Beason’s mill. On the road to Charlie’s.

  10. Joyce Montgomery Williams

    I could walk to Rikards mill from my home when I grew it was called Water Mill Hill.

  11. Hughie Wylie

    I think I worked here when it was being restored a few years back.

  12. Karen Tucker Ziglar

    I have been to Rikard’s Mill and had a great time!

  13. Nancy Gay Morse

    The mill in this picture was never a working mill. A picturesque landmark near Birmingham though.

    1. David McLeod

      True. I trapped beaver out of that creek. Not a working mill just decoration. Caught the biggest beaver of my career just to the right, downstream, of the bridge.

  14. Mary Mock

    IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL

  15. Virginia Parks

    The best grits I’ve ever had was purchased from Rikard’s Mill.

  16. Karen Mellema

    My family had a Grist Mill in Conecuh Called Wells Mill, they even have a road there called Wells road where the pond is, people use to be baptisted in the pond at the Wells mill pond.

    1. Wayne Wells

      Your cousin, Mildred was baptized there. The mill was gone when I came along in the late 1930’s but my sister remembers it. There was a country general store connected to the mill.

    2. Karen Mellema

      I hoping by posting this maybe someone will remember it, or has a picture of it.

    3. Wayne Wells

      That would be great!

    4. Karen Mellema

      I know right,it would be wonderful to see a picture of the place of somebody has one, or of James Wells.

    5. Wayne Wells

      That would be absolutely fantastic!!

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