Bunker Hill Mill, County Route 26, Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, WV
Summary
Significance: One of the first and only surviving Mill Creek (Berkeley County, West Virginia) grist mill. The mill is equipped with tandem steel overshot water wheels. The arrangement and variety of operable milling machinery reveals the operation of a typical, small, water-powered commercial grist mill in the early twentieth century.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17
Survey number: HAER WV-29
Building/structure dates: ca. 1735 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1887 Subsequent Work
Tags
flour mills
bunker hill
bunker
mill
bunker hill mill
county route
berkeley
berkeley county
west virginia
thomas anderson
ruth deboer
historic american engineering record
scott morris
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Anderson, Thomas
Morris, Scott, transmitter
DeBoer, Ruth, transmitter
Location
Bunker Hill
,
39.33196, -78.06335
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html