Colvin Run Mill
Colvin Run Mill
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Colvin Run Mill
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Nearest city | Great Falls, Virginia |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Built | 1810 |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style | No Style Listed |
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
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- ↑ Netherton, Ross D. Colvin Run Mill. Fairfax,VA: Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning, 1985
External links
- Official website
- Colvin Run Mill, 10017 Colvin Run Road, Great Falls, Fairfax County, VA: 2 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Colvin Run Mill Park and Village
- Colvin Run Mill YouTube video. Retrieved September 07, 2009
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- National Register of Historic Places in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Industrial buildings completed in 1811
- Virginia Municipal and County Parks
- Museums in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Mill museums in Virginia
- Parks in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Watermills in the United States
- Textile mills in the United States
- Northern Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Fairfax County, Virginia geography stubs
- Virginia museum stubs