United States, Georgia, Carroll County, 33.58282, -85.079741840/1971Banning Mill in Carroll County is believed to have been the first mill in the state to operate with electricity in the late 1880s. The original mill building, which did not include the wooden portion visible to the left, was four stories high until the top floor burned early in the twentieth century.Photograph of Banning Mill in Carroll County, Georgia. This three-story brick structure, initially known as Bowen's Mill, was founded along Snake Creek in Carroll County during the 1840s.Banning Mill is located in southeastern Carroll County on the banks of Snake Creek, an arm of the Chattahoochee River. When it closed in 1971, the mill, which opened in the decade of the 1840s, had been in existence longer than any other regional mill and had served as both employer and home to generations of area residents.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/banning-millForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/banning-millForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaMills and mill-work--Georgia--Carroll CountyBuildings--Georgia--Carroll CountyFactories--Georgia--Carroll CountyHistoric buildings--Georgia--Carroll CountyCarroll County (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.Banning MillStillImage