Abstract
In September 1993, data recovery efforts were undertaken by Espey, Huston & Associates, Inc. (EH&A) of Austin, Texas, to mitigate the effects of lignite mining on site 41RK223 in Texas Utilities Mining Company's Oak Hill/2280 Acre Mine permit area of north-central Rusk County, Texas. The data recovery efforts were planned and conducted in coordination with the Department of Antiquities Protection at the Texas Historical Commission (THC) and Mr. Matthew Tanner of TU Services. The site was originally recorded by EH&A during a 1989 survey of the Oak Hill/2280 Acre Mine permit area based on information received from local informants, Orville Todd and Herman Ballow. Both men recalled swimming as children in the vicinity of an old framework of heavy timbers submerged within Boggy Branch, a tributary to Mill Creek. Local history accounts suggested that the timbers were likely the remains of one of several old water-powered mills historically associated with the Mill Creek floodplain.
Highlights
This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1993/iss1/19
Through additional coordination with the Texas Historical Commission (THC) and the Railroad Commission of Texas, mechanical trenching was used to divert the waters of Boggy Branch around the site and expose a partially buried timber framework
Local history accounts provide somewhat contradictory information concerning the history of the Hays and Calloway mill, and essential primary source records appear to have been irretrievably lost as a result of two courthouse fires in Rusk County, the data recovered from 41RK223 clearly suggests that it is the Hays and Calloway mill around which the town of Millville thrived in the mid-to-late nineteenth century
Summary
This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1993/iss1/19. Data Recovery Efforts at the Millville Mill Site (41RK223), Rusk County, Texas
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