South Mills

… town in NW Camden County; inc. 1883, but not active in municipal affairs. Prior to 1800 the community was known as New Lebanon because the junipers that formerly grew in the area adjacent to the Dismal Swamp suggested the biblical reference to the tall cedars of Lebanon. Post office was New Lebanon from 1797 until 1839, when the name was changed to South Mills because waters from a spillway at the S end of the Dismal Swamp Canal were used to turn wheels of mills there.