A fully functioning mill which was assembled from several WV mills in disrepair.
The basic structure comes from the Stony Creek Grist Mill which was located in Pocahontas County, WV and date back to the early 1880s.
The wheel was taken from the Spring Run Grist Mill in Grant County, WV and other parts were taken from a third mill called Roaring Creek Grist Mill, which was located around Seneca Rocks.
On the weekends the mill still grinds corn meal, which can be purchased.
Sandstone Falls
The largest waterfall on the New River, Sandstone Falls spans the river where it is 1500 feet wide. Divided by a series of islands, the river drops 25 feet.
Sandstone Falls was created by the powerful flow of the New River eroding the soft conglomerate rock layer that lies below the hard sandstone layer from which the falls gets its name.
Ghost Town - Thurmond, WV
We entered the town on the one lane bridge adjoining the railroad bridge, which crosses the New River. The town, nearly deserted now, is preserved by the National Park Service, but in its day it boasted opera houses, two banks, two hotels, saloons, restaurants, clothing stores, a jewelry store, a movie theater, several dry-goods stores, and business offices.
During the first two decades of the 1900s, Thurmond was a classic boomtown. With the huge amounts of coal brought in from area mines, it had the largest revenue on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Having many coal barons among its patrons, Thurmond’s banks were the richest in the state. Fifteen passenger trains a day came through town — its depot serving as many as 95,000 passengers a year. The town’s stores and saloons did a remarkable business, and its hotels and boarding houses were constantly overflowing. Drinking and gambling was allowed on one side of the river. I called it the Sinner side and houses on the Saint side.
I have NEVER been on so many narrow winding roads in my life and I am from Arkansas!
The truck fills the entire road and these are two lanes!
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