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 ...

Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium

Hoover Dam

One of the finest examples of how civil engineering ingenuity shaped the development of society's quality of life in the 20th century.

Marker is on U.S. 93, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Grist Mill

Grist Mill

Erected 1850 by

Judah Burton

Son of the 1st Settlers

Marker is on Colyer Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...

Craig's Mill

Two miles south of Kenbridge stood Craig's Mill on Flat Rock Creek. There flour was ground and supplies were stored for the Revolutionary army. Tarleton, the British cavalryman, burned the mill in July, 1781, when raiding through the Southside. Rev. ...

Mill Stones

From early grist mill owned by Judah Burton. Mill Site located on Colyer Road. Donated to the town by Joseph A. Gregar

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 160 and Colyer Road, on the right when traveling east ...

Minnesota's First Commercial Sawmill

Sawmilling began here on August 24, 1839, when the Marine Lumber Company cut its first pine log.

In the autumn of 1838 two lumbermen from Marine,

Illinois, David Hone and Lewis Judd, arrived in the St. Croix River valley, attracted by ...

Bolles Flour Mill

About 1843, six years before Minnesota became a territory, Lemuel Bolles erected on this creek the first commercial flour mill in the Minnesota country. Bolles salvaged wood from the shore of Lake St. Croix and carried it on his back ...

Old Hammill Hotel

The three-story hotel, named for operator Edward Hammill, may be Occoquan’s first brick building. Tradition says it was built in 1804, but it likely dates from c. 1830. It was the Town’s premier inn. Confederate Col. Wade Hampton made it ...

Miller School

W 225

A bequest of Samuel Miller (1792–1869) provided funds to found the Miller School in 1878. Miller, a Lynchburg businessman born in poverty in Albemarle County, envisioned a regional school for children who could not afford an education. The school ...