TNTennessee field entry
The Old Mill General Store
Pigeon Forge, TN
A general store built into an 1830 Pigeon Forge gristmill, where pantry staples, kitchen goods and gifts are sold only steps from the stones still grinding grains for the store’s own products.
The Old Mill General Store joins substantial pantry-and-gift retail directly to a working nineteenth-century gristmill.
Field notes
Why it belongs
General-store pantry and kitchen retail housed in a working 1830 gristmill, with on-site stone grinding and scheduled mill tours departing through the shop.
Customers can buy products connected to the mill while seeing the nineteenth-century building and active grinding operation that produced part of the store’s distinctive inventory.
The Old Mill General Store occupies the former storeroom of Pigeon Forge’s 1830 gristmill, a space added around 1900, rebuilt after the 1920 flood and converted to retail in the 1950s. The shelves mix mill-ground grains, mixes, preserves, pantry foods, cookware, kitchen goods and gifts while grain is still ground nearby with water power. Scheduled mill tours depart through the General Store and show the historic machinery at work. The surrounding Old Mill district includes several separately named restaurants, shops, a distillery and a creamery; those neighboring businesses are not treated as departments of this listing.
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What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Working 1830 gristmill
- Stone-ground products
- General Store
- Pantry staples
- Kitchen goods and gifts
- Water-powered milling
- Scheduled mill tours