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In 1777 the Strother heirs sold to Mordecai Redd a tract of 430 acres on the Rush River adjacent to their own land. A mill stood on this site, probably built by Redd between 1777-79, and possibly the original portion of the structure standing today.
Two years later Redd sold the tract to George Calvert, Jr., a planter who already held substantial acreage in the area. The increased sale price could indicate that Redd had improved, rather than built, a mill, but there is no further evidence to substantiate this.
The activity of mill operations at this early date in the area is illustrated by a 1778 petition to the House of Delegates “of sundry inhabitants of Culpeper County," who complained that they had been deprived
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