Bufords Mill built by Mason Killion Creek or Gullian Grieg


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Title: Bufords Mill built by Mason Killion Creek or Gullian Grieg

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Where: located on Beaver Valley Road on the Beaver Creek, Glasgow in Barren County, Kentucky

When: 1950

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Unfortunately, the top of the mill was deteriorating by the late 1950s.

Because of this the top floors were removed and a new roof was installed, making the building much shorter. It is a shadow of its former self.

posted by Kelly (Squire) Walker

"On the Cover. Our cover picture...is of the old mill that stands on Beaver Creek...three miles west of Glasgow. The mill site was approved by the Warren County Court on May 1, 1798 and the mill was built shortly thereafter by stone mason Killian Kreek.

The builders name: Gullian Gerig he anglicized his name on his own to Killian Kreek, or Killian Creek, and other variants.

Killian Creek built a grist mill located on Beaver Valley Road on the Beaver Creek, Glasgow in Barren County, Kentucky. It was built in 1799-1800, it is still standing.

posted by Kelly (Squire) Walker

The builders name:

Gullian Gerig he anglicized his name on his own to Killian Kreek, or Killian Creek, and other variants. Killian Creek built a grist mill located on Beaver Valley Road on the Beaver Creek, Glasgow in Barren County, Kentucky. It was built in 1799-1800, it is still standing. When selling the property they signed their German names, Gullian and Margaret Greig. The mill was on the cover of the South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, "Traces of South Central Kentucky" Glasgow, KY: Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 1982.

posted by Kelly (Squire) Walker

This is Lazarus Webbs wife's (Nancy Creek) father's mill.

posted by Kelly (Squire) Walker