Sycamore Powder Mills & area

Title

Sycamore Powder Mills & area

Subject

Sycamore Powder Mills & area

Description

Photographs of Sycamore Mills and the area of Sycamore and documents relating to the Sycamore area.

Publisher

Walter Pitt, archivist, Cheatham County

Contributor

Jackson family collection & Walter Pitt

Rights

Cheatham County Public Library

Format

jpeg

Language

English

Type

photographs

Collection Items

Sycamore Powder Mills & area
Photographs of the present & past of the Sycamore Powder mills area,

Sycamore Dam 1973
Photograph of the Sycamore Dam spring 1973

Sycamore Dam
1973 photograph of the Sycamore Dam which was used for the Sycamore Powder Mills.

Sycamore Powder Company Office Letterhead
Office stationery from the Sycamore Powder Company. This item was found in the teacher pay warrants from 1887. It was pay of $2.50 for wood for the school December 14, 1887.

D.C. Cullom Justice of Peace, Sycamore, Tenn.
Letterhead from school pay warrants for D.C. Cullom, Justice of Peace, Sycamore, Tennessee.

Sycamore Powder Mills Letterhead
Letterhead from Sycamore Powder Mills. the letter dated December 14, 1887 is payment for wood brought to heat the Sycamore School.

Sycamore Powder Mill mill hands homes. 1973
The remaining mill hands homes at the site of Sycamore Powder Mills 1973

Sycamore Powder Mills Handmade Brick
A handmade brick from a powder magazine at the Sycamore Powder Mills.

Sycamore Iron Bridge
Photographs of the iron bridge connecting Sycamore Mill with the Sycamore to Pleasant View Road. Constructed in 1891 and designed by E.C. Lewis, the six cable iron bridge is believed to be the only nineteenth century six cable bridge still standing…

Sycamore Water Tower
The old water tower at Sycamore Mill located near the dam. It was used if fire broke out at the powder mill. A pipe ran through the bottom of the tower down the bluff to the creek. At the top of the tank a small pipe extended over to the edge of the…
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