Beaver Mills - Ghost Town (original) (raw)

NAME: Beaver Mills
COUNTY: Mobile
ROADS: 4WD
GRID: 7
CLIMATE: Hot, Humid, Lots of mosquitoes.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter to avoid snakes. Surrounded by a swamp.

COMMENTS: No residents. Stone walls of the paper mill and Civil War uniform Depot.US Hwy 45 north from Mobile to Old Gulf Crest Rd. Follow untill it dead ends into a berm where the bridge has been removed to protect the site. Secondary access: Continue north on US Hwy 45 to the next marked dirt road on the right. Turn right and follow over small wooden bridge. Town site is just over the bridge in the flat area. Road to the right with the beaver pond on the left takes you to the old road bed where the second bridge was removed to protect the main site.
REMAINS: Only the stone walls of the old mill / uniform depot.