Middlebrook Mills

Abraham Faw built a grist mill here on Seneca Creek about 1790. By 1795 the mill had four pairs of grinding stones. There was also a saw mill and a tavern on the site. The mills were bought in 1797 ...

Shamrock Mills

In 1911, Shamrock Knitting Mills was the first structure built by the Hanes Hosiery empire. Originally, the company manufactured cotton socks for children and men. In 1914, Shamrock Knitting Mills was renamed Hanes Hosiery Mills Company, and in 1918, the ...

Spring Mills

Previous to 1817, known variously as Godley's Mills and Helltown for a rowdy tavern operating nearby. A grist mill and saw mill were built here about 1800.

Marker is at the intersection of Milford Warren Glen Road (County Route 519) and ...

A Tale of Two Mills

Trading and Burial Grounds

During the Civil War, two mills stood on the Rush River in this vicinity on the property of John Jett, who resided at Ellerslie half a mile south of here. They included the Avon Mill before you ...

Hurricane Mills

This mill and dam were built by

James T. Anderson

in 1896

Though wool was carded here, grain processing predominated. Corn meal and flour were shipped throughout the south. Restored by Loretta and Mooney Lynn, with whose permission this marker has been installed ...

Gays Mills Apple Orchards

Farmers in this area learned early that the land on both sides of the Kickapoo River offered excellent conditions for apple-growing. In 1905 John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or ten farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit ...

Neabsco Mills Ironworks

The Neabsco Mills Ironworks complex, under the ownership of three generations of the Tayloe family, of Richmond County, operated between 1737 and 1828. Located near this site, it was one of the longest continually operating ironworks in present-day Northern Virginia. ...

Union Mills Historic Site

In the late 18th century, following the American Revolution, this area of Fairfax County began to be referred to as Union Mills. Covering five or six square miles between Popes Head Run and Johnny Moore Run, it was recognized for ...

Houston Mill Millstone

From the Houston Mill built in 1873

Owned by Maj. W.J. Houston

Purchased from Dr. Chapmon Powell

Millstone removed in 1974

Mill site destroyed in 1983

Donated by Joseph Augustine Sams Bond

Moved to Old Courthouse Grounds October 2001 by

Fred Turner – A. S. Turner ...

Hoffman Paper Mills

The first paper maker in Maryland was William Hoffman. In 1775 he built his first mill on Gunpowder Falls a quarter mile upstream from the present Hoffmanville Bridge.

In September 1776 Congress adopted watermarked paper for its currency. Hoffmanville Mills manufactured ...