Welcome to the Mill Prong House
Built by John Gilchrist in 1795
Mill Prong House is located at 3062 Edinburg Road, Red Springs, NC, 28377
The McEachern cemetery, one mile southeast of the Mill Prong House, contains not only the graves of builder, John Gilchrist and family, Archibald McEachern and his descendants but also the graves of many members of the large Highland Scots community who established here in the upper Cape Fear region the largest settlement of their people in the United States.
The cemetery contains 66 graves and was established with the interment of Gilbert McMillan in 1772.
Several of the gravestones were executed by George Lauder, a prominent 19th century Fayetteville stonemason.
The adjacent African-American cemetery contains among others the gravestone of Washington McEachern, the coachman for the McEachern family.
The State Preservation Officer in the National Register Nomination to the National Register termed the historical significance of the cemetery as strong as the house itself.
It is located on Old Maxton Road, approximately 3/4 mile from the Mill Prong House, and is available for touring and genealogical research every day.
Aerial photograph and map of Mill Prong House, 3062 Edinburg Rd., Hoke County, North Carolina; the McEachern cemetery and McPhaul's Mill site.
| Gilbert McMillan D. May 7, 1772 age 60 years (came from Isle of Cantyre Scotland with Gilchrist Family in 1770) | Flora consort of Angus CurrieB. in the Island of Cantyre Scotland May 20, 1774 came to Am 1775 D. Sept. 19, 1834 (sister of Randal Currie) | Mrs. Mary Purcell wife of John Purcell, Sr. Who D. Nov. 20, 1843 age 72 years The deceased sustained a spotless reputation & possessed a sound energetic & discriminating mind. She was for 50 years a communicant member of the Presbyterian Church. (dau of John Gilchrist & Effie McMillan she married 1st Col. Archibald McKay – they had one son Hector McKay who D. in Tenn. 1845) |
| Christian McMillan D. 15 day June AD 1811 aged 84 (LUMBER RIVER SCOTS & their descendents (1942) describes Christian McMillan as a woman of great character who during the Rev. War period acted as physician for the folk in a 40 mi area, she rode a grey pony & carried remedies in her saddle bags) | Angus Currie B in the Island of Collonsay Scotland Sept. 17, 1770 came to Am 1791 D. June 10, 1845 He was long a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. | Daniel McCallum B. April 19, 1823 D. Feb. 16, 1885 |
| Calvin son of Angus & Christian McBryde, D. Dec. 8, 1825 at 17 mos | Archd. Currie, Sr. D. May 25, 1849 age 71 | Infant son of Archd & Margt. A McEachernB. Oct. 22 and D. Nov. 12, 1849 |
| Christian wife of Angus McBryde, D. Sept. 22, 1820, age 28 years, Also of her Infant | Margaret wife of Archie Currie, B. Jan. 12, 1784, D. Aug. 24, 1882 | Caroline McCallum B. Sept. 20, 1822 D. Aug. 4, 1878 |
McEachern Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions