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Richmond—The Virginia Historic Landmarks Comftiission has announced the addition of Washington Mill in Rappahannock County to the Virginia Landmarks Register.
The register is the state’s official list of properties worthy of preservation and embraces buildings, structures. sites, and districts prominently identified with Virginia history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
A visually important architectural and historic resource on the eastern edge of the Washington Historic District, Washington Mill served as the town mill of Washington from the early national period until the end of the 19th century.
While there is no evidence to prove conclusively that the existing structure incorporates elements of a mill erected on this site before 1779, it is certain that the earliest part of the present building was standing by 1800, with additions in 1840 and 1860.
The mill, which retains much of its antebellum machinery in good repair, is significant as a well-' preserved artifact of the grain and milling industry that figured largely in the 19th century economy of Virginia. The structure is believed to have served also as a neutral bartering place between Union and Confederates lines during the Civil War.
The documentation of ownership of this property is , very dear. Deeds indicate that the site first was named Redd’s Mill and later Rush Mills. Locally, the mill became known by the names of its various owners, almost all of whom were early settlers of Rappahannock County or their descendants.
The land on which the mill stands once formed part of a Northern Neck grant on the Rush River received by John or Francis Strother in 1748. Acquiring additional holdings through the years, they and other members of the Strother family rose to prominence as merchants, mill owners, and influential citizens of Culpeper County in the period before Rappahannock County was formed from Culpeper in 1833.
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