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1. SUBJECT:

Parrotts Mill.

2. LOCATION:

On Brocks Creek nine miles west of Broadway, Virginia.

3. DATE:

About 1775

4. OWNERS:

Grant issued to Adam Parrott 1775, who built the mill. About 1825 it was handed down to his son, Phillip Parrott who operated it until his death in 1875, then it was sold to William Berry, who operated it until his death and it belongs to his widow, the present day owner, Mrs. Sallie Berry.

5. DESCRIPTION:

See Sheet #3686 attached.

6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

English immigrants who constitute a very small minority of pioneer settlers came through the Blue Ridge Passes and established homes along the Shenandoah River. The majority of our first inhabitants came later with the German migration following the close of the French and Indian War. These pioneers followed the streams on Linville Creek and North Mountain Valley to their sources and southward until they met the English and Scotch settlers in Augusta County.

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8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Mr. W.O. Mowbray, Preacher and Historian, Singers Glenn, Virginia

Court Records, Rockingham County, Harrisonburg, Virginia.