Year Erected: 1986

Marker Text: N. Fork Peachtree Creek. West of the road was the ante-bellum structure of a mill owned and operated by John Blake (1798-1854).

July 18, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C. of McPherson's Army of the Tennessee [US], enroute from Roswell to Decatur, camped here -- where both McPherson and Blair had h'dq'rs. Dodge's 16th A.C. camped 1 mi. N. on the Rainey plantation where some of Sweeny's men fought a sham battle using green apples for bullets.

Logan's 15th A.C. detoured 1.5 mi. N. to join Garrard's cavalry at Browning's Court House (now TUCKER), 4 mi. E. of here ~ a move that began the destruction of the Georgia R.R. at Stone Mtn.