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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Turley’s Mill.

  2. LOCATION:

At Mauzy, Virginia, west on Route #1 at the intersection of Route #259.

3. DATE:

1765
  1. OWNERS:

    2. 1765, John Turley

    1827, John W. Flannery

    1878 Adam Emsville, then to his heirs.

  2. DESCRIPTION:

    3. The ground floor is of stone, and the second and third stories are frame. Has been remodeled.

  3. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    4. 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 wars. These pioneers followed the streams in Linville Cut and North Mountain Valleys to their sources and southward until they met the English and Scotch settlers in Augusta County. The first work of these settlers was to erect mills for grinding grain. This mill was among the first build. The site where the mill was built came from the grant of King George the II and early Colonial Governors.

  4. ART:
  5. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant: W.O. Mowbray, Mauzy, Virginia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 22, 1937 Miles E. Snyder,

Harrisonburg, Virginia