St. Regis Mills

Father DeSmet named the St. Regis River after a fellow priest, but the riverside boomtown called St. Regis quickly became a thriving community of “saloons, honky-tonks, stores, and industry.” Settlers arrived via the Mullan Road, a military installation running between ...

Caras Park/Missoula Mills Millstone

Missoula’s beginnings can be traced to the Clark Fork riverfront that is now Caras Park. In 1860, town founders C. P. Higgins and Francis L. Worden established a trading post in Hell ...

Kennedy Mills

First commercial enterprise in southeastern Chautauqua County

Doctor Thomas Ruston Kennedy built first mill October 1805 after purchase of 3000 acres in the area which became the Town of Poland

Marker is on Frewsburg Road (U.S. 62) 0.2 miles ...

Thomas W. Smith's Corn Cracker and Grist Millstone

Thomas Washington Smith was one of the original pioneers to settle Washington in 1857. He must have started to build his mill immediately after arriving the millstones were large and of granite and would have taken a Herculean effort to ...

Battle of Buckland Mills

On October 19, 1863, 12,000 Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at Buckland. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening the Confederate withdrawal following the Battle of Bristoe Station, blocked the advance of Union Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry division. Initially occupying this position, ...

To Irwinton Mills

In the limestone mansion house still standing, lived Archibald Irwin and Jean McDowell, his wife. To them were born two daughters. Jane, the elder, became the wife of William Henry Harrison, Jr., and was mistress of the White House during ...

Chase's Mills

Also known as Fox Hollow.

Site of c.1808 Grist-Mill.

Mills here provided lumber,

textiles & food, creating a

center for commerce and trade

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Street and Maple Street, on the right when traveling ...

Battle of South Mills

Fight for the Canal

Early in 1862, Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside led an expedition to secure the coast of North Carolina and occupy strategically important sites such as New Bern and Elizabeth City. After Burnside learned of the March 9 ...

Advance Mills

Villages such as Advance Mills were once common features of rural Virginia, serving as economic and social centers. Advance Mills grew around a single mill that John Fray constructed in 1833 on the north fork of the Rivanna River. By ...

Empire and the Carson River Mills

1864 - 1964

When the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, the problem of reducing the ore from the fabulously rich Virginia City mines had to be solved. Mills were built in Gold Canyon and Six Mile Canyon. In Washoe Valley, ...