Colvin Run Mill

Colvin Run Mill
Colvin Run Mill
Nearest city Great Falls, Virginia
Coordinates 38°58′8″N 77°17′38″W / 38.96889°N 77.29389°WCoordinates: 38°58′8″N 77°17′38″W / 38.96889°N 77.29389°W
Built 1810
Architect Unknown
Architectural style No Style Listed
Governing body Local
NRHP Reference # 77001487 [1]
VLR # 029-0008
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 16, 1977
Designated VLR September 21, 1976[2]

Colvin Run Mill is in Great Falls, Virginia. Built c. 1811, Colvin Run Mill is the sole surviving operational 19th-century water-powered mill in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and its restored mechanism is a nationally significant example of automated technologies pioneered in milling and later adopted across American industry.[3] Down the gravel path of the park is the miller's house, home to the families who ran the mill. In 1883, Addison Millard moved his family here when he bought the old mill. Addison, his wife Emma, and some of their 20 children lived there. When Addison died, the family stayed and operated the mill until 1934. [4]

In the mid-1930s the mill was abandoned, and highway development caused the mill to be cut off from any near-by water source. The mill was later acquired by the Fairfax County Park Authority,repaired, and made open to the public.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Colvin Run Mill - History". The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). May 10, 2001.
  4. ↑ "Colvin Run Mill - History". May 14, 2008.
  5. ↑ Netherton, Ross D. Colvin Run Mill. Fairfax,VA: Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning, 1985

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