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You can eat there, in downtown Senoia, Georgia, where The Walking Dead is filmed and these photos were made. Senoia is less than an hour southwest of Atlanta
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My favorite hiking/picnic spot in the area around The Walking Dead filming.
Only problem with this spot is that it is so hard to find.
The mill is located a couple miles south of Fayetteville, Georgia off of Hwy 85, or a couple miles south of Peachtree City off of Hwy 74. . . or if you're in Senoia, Georgia for the filming of The Walking Dead, it would be about a mile north on Hwy 85.
Look for the intersection of highways 74 and 85 south of Peachtree City or Fayetteville. At that intersection, on the northeast corner, is a little church. Behind the church is a dirt road that leads north into the Starr's Mill Park and Pond area.
Off of Interstate 85 take Georgia 16 east into Senoia. Just past Senoia 16 meets Hwy 85. Go north on 85 about mile and look for the intersection of 74 and 85. Confused yet? It is not easy to find and not on many maps.
From Interstate 75 exit at Georgia 16 west, drive through Griffin (also a Walking Dead filming town) and when you get to 85 turn north about 1 mile.
Above: The keepers quarters.
On my most recent visit both the mill house and the keepers quarters had been sealed off. I imagine this was in response to a surge in visitors due to filming of The Walking Dead so close (only a mile or so away in Senoia).
There are plenty of websites that list other Walking Dead filming locations but you'll notice that filming has not been done at the mill, yet. Rather just north on Whitewater Creek.
Starr's Millpond was the site of the filming of the
2002 movie Sweet Home Alabama
Above: The small dam holds back Whitewater Creek and Camp Creek to create Starr's Millpond.
The property that became Starr's Mill was owned by Hananiah Gilcoat who built the first mill there before his death in 1825.
The site, on Whitewater Creek, was less than a mile from the boundary between Creek Indian lands and the State of Georgia.
Hilliard Starr, who owned the mill from 1866 until 1879, gave the site its current name.
It is the perfect hiking and picnic spot, if you can find it.
After the first two log structures on the site burned, William T. Glower built the current building in 1907.
This mill operated until 1959, using a water-powered turbine, instead of a wheel, to grind corn and operate a sawmill. The Starr's Mill site also included a cotton gin and a dynamo that produced electricity for nearby Senoia.
Above: Phillip in front of Starr's Mill on a recent weekend.
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If Georgia passes an anti-gay “religious liberty” bill on May 3, the state stands to lose billions of dollars in revenue. Not just because of the loss of extravagant, amazing gay weddings — although, that too — but because a fleet of major Hollywood players have joined the Walt Disney Co. and its Marvel Studios film unit in threatening to boycott Georgia should the bill be signed into law.
As of Friday, all of the following companies have spoken out against the bill: Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Lionsgate, CBS, Starz, AMC Networks (megahit The Walking Dead is currently filmed in Georgia), Netflix, Time Warner, CBS, The Weinstein Company, Sony, Comcast/NBCUniversal, MGM, STX Entertainment, and Open Road Films.
The legislation before Gov. Nathan Deal (R) is House Bill 757. It would prevent individuals from being forced to perform or attend same-sex weddings (if you’re curious, yes, that is a right already guaranteed by the First Amendment; no one can make you attend a wedding, be it gay, straight, or dog); allow faith-based groups, including churches and religious schools, to refuse employment and service to anyone who violates the group’s religious beliefs; and permit those groups to deny employment to anyone “whose religious beliefs or practices or lack of either are not in accord with the faith-based organization’s sincerely held religious belief.”
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Kohrs, 38, was off duty and driving westbound in his 2009 Dodge Charger on Broadway near Montgomery Street when he allegedly slammed into the victims, who were crossing the street around 2:20 a.m., police said. The driver ditched the car at the scene and ran away. Police found that the Charger was registered to Kohrs.
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