{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Mill Spring, North Carolina |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area#United States|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = [[ZIP code]] |postal_code = 28756 |area_code = [[Area code 828|828]] |blank_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank_info = 1021460<ref>{{cite gnis|1021460|Mill Spring}}</ref> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Mill Spring''' is an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] in [[Polk County, North Carolina|Polk County]], [[North Carolina]], United States. Mill Spring is located at the junction of [[North Carolina Highway 9]] and [[North Carolina Highway 108]] {{convert|3.7|mi|km}} northeast of [[Columbus, North Carolina]]. Mill Spring has a [[post office]] with [[ZIP code]] 28756.<ref name="GR7">{{cite web|url=http://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action|title=USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code|accessdate=2012-02-15|author=United States Postal Service|year=2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code|url=http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|publisher=[[United States Postal Service]]|accessdate=March 20, 2013}}</ref> Mill Spring is named after Colonel [[Ambrose Mills]]. He founded a saw mill and post office in the community.

Mill Spring was the hometown of [[Bryant H. Womack]], recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]] for actions during the Korean War.

The [[Rev. Joshua D. Jones House]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1991.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

The [[Tryon, North Carolina#Equestrian community|Tryon International Equestrian Center]], in Mill Spring, was the location of the [[2018 FEI World Equestrian Games]].<ref>{{cite web|title=North Carolina to Host 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games|url=http://www.thehorse.com/articles/38380/north-carolina-to-host-2018-fei-world-equestrian-games|website=TheHorse.com|accessdate=3 November 2016|date=3 November 2016}}</ref>

==See also== * [[Lake Adger]], northwest of town

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