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Histories &
Mysteries
Fran Eldred
got 13 chickens, and it isn’t very good weather for setting hens either.
Who can beat that, except W. G. Wood? But as Sperryville is the garden spot of the world, it don’t get cold here like at Washington.”
It is believed Pass Mills was built c. 1740 by slave labor on property owned by Francis Thornton. It is thought to have been a benchmark for several early surveys. Later it became known as Temperance Mills and today we know the remains of this once grand old mill as Fletcher’s Mill.
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