------General mill information no other known-- data ?
Coodey mill--between Muskogee and Fort Gibson
Bayou Menard near crossing of old stage road between Ft. Gibson and Tahlequah-unknown water suppy-stream/ creek
Vol. 20 no.3 page 236--owner--Daniel Henry Rucker married Flora McDonald Coodey dau of
Jane Ross sister of Chief John Ross.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v020/v020p236.html
Wilkie's mill-- about two miles south of Westville
Thompson's mill-- on Tyner Creek west of Watts
Wright's mill-- on the Barron fork creek
Hiderbrands mill also sometimes called Beck's mill
Used by both Confederdate and Union in the war
Spavinaw mill-- near Flint
O.H.S. Battle of Barren creek-Dec.18,1863
-Spilman moved to complete his secondary objective,that of reinforcing Major Foreman operating the (Old-Dutch)Rhea's mill {Ark}Captain Spilman moved his column directly east
to make contact with command of Major Foreman. This action at Barren Fork,Cherokee Nation ,was a success for the union forces,helped halt the Confederate activity north of the
Arkansas for the winter of 1863-64.Col Stand Watie moved into winter camp near Spavinaw
creek in the Cherokee Nation. Shortly afterward ,he gathered several southern Cherokee families and moved into the Choctaw Nation ,south of the Arkansas river for remainer of the winter.O.H.S.17 PG 456
Old Dutch Rhea's mill--southeast of Prairie Grove,Arkansas
It looks likely that a man named Towers built-In 1845 and sold to Hiderbrand that mill with aid of skills millwrights & mechanic's from the Dutch mills/Ark.
Major Foreman of the third Indian Home Guard Regiment,who had one battalion there operating the[Rhea's mill}Dec 1863 --Vol.48 pg.76 no. 1, 1970