Dolvin Foundation Considering Plans For Recreational And Educational Facility On Land Surrounding Elder Mill Bridge

Trustees for the Elizabeth Price Dolvin Foundation are exploring the possibility of creating an Oconee County environmental and heritage center modeled after a similar facility in Gwinnett County.

The facility would be on Elder Mill Road and incorporate property owned by the late Elizabeth Price Dolvin surrounding the iconic Elder Mill Bridge.

“There’s nothing for us to say about it right now other than that we are in conversations with Oconee County about an environmental and heritage center,” trustee Ray B. Burruss Jr., an Athens attorney, said last week.

Burruss did say that Elder Mill itself, which is not owned by the Dolvin Foundation, is an “integral” part of the planning and the county will need to acquire the mill and the 6-acre property on which it sits for the plan to be realized.

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Pictured: Elder Mill Bridge.