…no idea what Three Dog Night’s music has to do with this photo except the mill is known as Ely’s mill. You can see it today on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in the GSMNP. And it is a wonderful hour plus trip if you get to the Smokys it is a must do drive. The mill was build by Andrew Jefferson Ely in 1925. A. J. Ely, known as "Old Man Ely," was a Yale law school graduate, a practicing Tennessee lawyer and a printer. One web site says if he liked you he would talk for hours if he didn’t “he would take the afternoon off to tell you why.” We were here on a perfect morning for color this past fall. The mill is across the road from the house posted Saturday.
