Freeman's Mill
Brothers John Griffin and Levi J. Loveless built this gristmill on the east bank of the Alcovy River between 1868 and 1879; later owned by the Freeman family, it ground corn meal and wheat flour for Gwinnett farmers until 1986, one of the last working mills in the county, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places. For decades after it fell silent, drivers passing the dark, abandoned mill off Alcovy Road swore a light would flick on in the top story as their headlights swept by, framing the reflection of a man standing in the window. Those who stopped on the little bridge over the creek behind it told of a faint green glow drifting up from the woods, with no source anyone could find. Gwinnett County raised and restored the mill in 2009 and opened it as a park, but the old roadside legend of the light, the watcher in the glass, and the glow in the trees has outlived the building's abandonment.
📍 1401 Alcovy Road, Dacula, GA · Get directions