UPDATE: The Whitfield County Commission is outlining plans to renovate the Prater’s Mill site in Varnell after "a great deal of disinformation disseminated on social media” recently.

Valeria Molina, communications director for the commission, said the following is factual information about the site and the county’s work:

1. In 1971 the Prater’s Mill Foundation was created with a mission statement “to protect, preserve and present the heritage of the Prater’s Mill Historic Site for future generations.”

2. The Foundation never owned any portion of the Prater’s Mill site or structures located there. Until 2010 the property was owned by the Boring family. That year the Boring Family conveyed the property to Whitfield County. From 2010 to the present the Foundation has been an at will, rent

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