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An 1880s Tanner and Delaney steam engine believed to have been used for the manufacture of mountain moonshine at Chester Gap is now nestled snugly at Berry ville museum.
The story of this engine as related by Leslie E. Good, president of the Shenandoah Valley Steam and Gas Engine Association, appeared in the summer issue of “The Iron Men Album Magazine.” Subscriber Willie Gentry shared the story with the Rappahannock News.
The engine was discovered about 400 yards down stream from Indian Run Spring near Chester Gap, on land now owned by the Shenandoah National Park. Natives told Good that the engine and a mill that had been in the area were operated by Holmes Edward Boyd of Berryville. Boyd bought the land in 1901 from the George Compton estate.
In its early days the engine ran a lumber mill. It fell
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