Freeman's Mill
Brothers John Griffin and Levi J. Loveless built this gristmill on the Alcovy River between 1868 and 1879, and under the later Freeman family it ground corn meal and wheat flour for Gwinnett farmers until 1986, one of the county's last working mills and now on the National Register of Historic Places. For decades after it fell silent, drivers passing the dark mill off Alcovy Road swore a light flicked on in the top story as their headlights swept by, framing a man's reflection in the window.
Others stopping on the creek bridge told of a faint green glow rising from the woods with no source. Gwinnett County restored it as a park in 2009, but the legend of the light, the watcher, and the glow has outlived its silence.
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