Yates Mill — Raleigh, NC

Historic Yates Mill

I am a big fan of old mills, and old build­ings gen­er­ally, so I took a drive out to Raleigh to check out the Yates Mill off of Lake Wheeler Road.  Even though the weather was gloomy, I got some nice shots of the mill, espe­cially the spill­way and the mill­race.  I also had an equally nice walk around the millpond, which was sur­pris­ingly quiet and peace­ful, given the buzz of the city sur­round­ing this nos­tal­gic park.

5 Comments

  1. Ben Jacobsen on Jan 26, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Lov­ing this set Mark. The water adds another ele­ment to your already great decay style.

  2. Shawn on Jan 26, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Very nice images Mark. Hav­ing never seen these in per­son, You really show­case the Mills and their details very well. Fun stuff!

  3. mschueler on Jan 26, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Thanks, dudes!

  4. eJohn on Mar 21, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Found your site while cruis­ing the web for sites con­tain­ing infor­ma­tion on water-powered mills. I am for­tu­nate to live about 10 miles from a farm hav­ing two (grist and saw). The saw mill has been restored and is run sev­eral times a week except dur­ing the win­ter months. The grist mill was com­pletely dis­as­sem­bled last year, and restora­tion work is in process.

  5. mschueler on Mar 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    Thanks for the com­ment! I have trav­eled all over cen­tral and east­ern NC look­ing for old mills (grist in par­tic­u­lar). I am hop­ing to put together a mill/covered bridge tour of West­ern NC at some point when I have time. There’s just some­thing really fun­da­men­tally inter­est­ing about mills for me.

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