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Prater's Mill
Georgia
Highway 2
Dalton, GA 30721
United States
Website
Campsite for both the North and the South. During Battle Of Varnell's Station, Ben Prater's seventeen slaves were brought to the porch of the mill where they could here the battle raging in the distance.
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