Wade's Mill in Raphine, VA
Information from Wade's Mill web site: Wade's Mill is a working flour mill, c. 1750, built by Captain Joseph Kennedy. Captain Kennedy was a Scotsman who was one of the earlier settlers in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He settled in the area between Staunton and Lexington Virginia. This was the frontier of the United States between 1740 and 1770. The Kennedy family owned the flour mill in the Shenandoah Valley for about 100 years.
In 1882, James F. Wade bought the flour mill and his family operated it for the next four generations. The interior and workings of the flour mill are much like they were when Mr. Wade bought it.
McCormick Farm at Raphine, Virginia
The McCormick Farm, a National Historic Landmark, was the family home of Cyrus McCormick and the first successful mechanical reaper machine. The Farm is located in Raphine, Virginia.
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A peaceful revolution that spread benefits to all corners of the world started here in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley on a hot July day in 1831. Twenty two year old Cyrus McCormick demonstrated the world's first successful mechanical grain reaper to a skeptical crowd of neighbors and onlookers in the fields near his farm, Walnut Grove. In so doing, he opened a new era in agriculture -- an age of mechanization that not only changed life on the farm, but made it possible for millions of people to leave their rural roots and enter a more industrialized society.
For centuries, grain had been harvested with strong arms, aching backs, and scythes or sickles. McCormick's reaper, designed and built at Walnut Grove near Steeles Tavern in Augusta County, Virginia, harvested grain five times faster with a fraction of the physical effort. McCormick patented the machine in 1834 under the name Virginia Reaper. Cyrus McCormick is considered the Father of Modern Agriculture.
More than 180 years after McCromick demonstrated his original reaper, ideas to improve farming continue to flow from Walnut Grove. In 1954, the 634 acre farm, now known as the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center (AREC) became part of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). In keeping with tradition established by Cyrus McCormick, faculty members at AREC and from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences on Virginia Tech's main campus in Blacksburg continue agricultural research in the areas of animal science, plant science, agronomy, forestry, and other disciplines.
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US HWY 340 Stanley to Luray, Virginia
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. (Song is is Oh Virginia by Blessid Union Of Souls). Take a drive from Stanley to Luray. The foreground moving kind of reminds me of claymation. (I mounted the camera to the tripod and passenger seat). WHY? Well ... why NOT? BTW, those mountains in the distance? Shenandoah National Park.
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From 1697 until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the trading town of Dorchester flourished along the Ashley River, inland from colonial Charleston. Today, Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site's remarkably preserved archaeological remains give visitors a peek into the early history of colonial South Carolina.
Abandoned at the start of the Revolutionary War, the town of Dorchester has all but disappeared, leaving only a handful of original structures remaining. Visitors can stand below the towering remains of the brick bell tower of St. George's Anglican Church, catch a glimpse of a log wharf during low tide or view the fort made of an oyster-shell concrete called tabby.
Today, visitors to Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site can watch as archaeologists unearth the settlement's history. Together with abundant historical records from colonial Charleston, the site is helping to paint a clearer picture of life in colonial South Carolina and the rest of the American South.
Natural (and Unnatural) Virginia
There are, of course, many roadside attractions that dot the landscape of our nation. We would argue, however, that there is a 5-mile stretch of Highway 11 in the Commonwealth of Virginia that sports more of them than anywhere else in the country. In this episode, we explore two of the many sites along Highway 11 that await visitors who find themselves in this part of the Shenandoah Valley. Our favorite thing about this 5-mile stretch of highway is that it features sites that are on opposite extremes - the sublime and the ridiculous.On one extreme, one can enjoy the breath-taking scenery of Virginia's Natural Bridge. As our episode details, the Natural Bridge has inspired at least two American presidents, as well as author Herman Melville, who used this natural wonder as a mechanism to describe his infamous whale, Moby Dick.In contrast, Highway 11 also features the delightful Foamhenge, a detailed replica of the original Stonehenge made entirely out of Styrofoam. Trust us, you have to watch this episode to see just how detailed this replica is.
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Rotaflex Flour Mill Spout Cleaning System
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Say goodbye to using fumigants, chemicals, wire rods, pull-throughs, brushes and rubber hammers - and listen to your spouts making the sweet sound of profitable milling instead.
Effective, flexible, robust and affordable the Rotaflex™ Mill Spout Cleaning System is an essential tool to assist in the running of a profitable mill. Rotaflex powers quickly and safely through build-ups and blockages in mill spouts, pipe work, heat exchangers, boiler tubes, flues and ducts - whether caused by flour, moth, beetle or humidity - leaving them clean, clear and undamaged.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 48,914. Harrisonburg is the county seat of Rockingham County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Harrisonburg with Rockingham County for statistical purposes. Harrisonburg is home to James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University.
Harrisonburg is the core city of the Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a 2011 estimated population of 126,562.
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Readyville Mill - Cannon County TN
The Readyville Mill is the sole vestige of what was once a flourishing industry on the Stones River in Middle Tennessee. Dating from the 1870s, the current Readyville Mill is a three-story building with an open fourth-story attic. In the early 1900s, the mill supplied the area with electricity, making Readyville one of the first rural villages in Tennessee to possess electric lights. Other products included ice, corn meal, refined flour, whole wheat flour, buckwheat flour, and lumber.
Mill History
1766 Uriah Stone explored current Readyville area; Stones River named after him.
1802 Mary & Charles Ready setteled Readyville area.
1811 Ready offered land for Rutherford County seat; post office built.
1812 Ready built GRIST MILL; cut channel from Stones River for water wheel.
1829 Ready built home known as The Corners, which still stands.
SAW MILL added, DAM and RACE built
MILL BURNED-DATE AND CAUSE UNKNOWN
1859 Charles died; daughter Jane & husband Peter Talley continues operation with their son, Frances.
1878 Robert Carter rebuilt building standing now
FLOUR MILL added
1889 W. B. Hayes bought Mill; worked with son, Sam, and Arthur McFerrin. Sam lived in the house across the race; currently a rental house.
SAWMILL added
1900 ICE PLANT built.
1918 ELECTRICITY Readyville had electricity before Murfreesboro (plant bought by TVA in 1937.
TOP FLOOR added to Mill; 4th floor added to provide more height for the gravity-dependent milling operation,
MACHINE SHOP over the millrace south of Highway 70S built.
1930s CORN MEAL, FLOUR, LUMBER, ICE, ELECTRICITY, MACHINE SHOP operated at this site.
935+ Leslie & George Justice bought 3.75 acre mill site; sawmill sold; TURBINES installed; grinding stones replaced by steel rollers for white flour.
1970 Mary & Gerald Flipse bought Mill; GRINDING STONES from another mill added to provide corn, whole wheat, buckwheat operations; French burr stone form Marne Valley.
1973 Mill placed on National Register of Historic Places Marie & Wilfred Carignan purchased Mill.
1977 Mill sold to George Reel & Wayne Epperly.
1980s Mill stopped running.
2006 Mill bought and in process of being restored. Update and pictures soon to come.
Tomm Brady, current owner
of the Readyville Mill, is working hard to restore this wonderful place back to working condition.
The mill site consists of 3.9 acres on the East Fork of the Stones River. The mill is 1.5 miles from scenic Highway 70S 12 miles east of Murfreesboro.
photos taken 2-28-08
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I lived at the Readyville Mill for a while in 1975 and worked and played there on and off until it's closure in the early 80's and would like to take the opportunity to thank Tomm Brady, the current owner, for his continuing efforts to restore this wonderfully historic place. It holds a lot of memories.
My girls and I spent more than a few hot summer days at the swimming hole behind the dam.
The famous or infamous Goat Roasts of the late 70's were held there; hundreds of people, good music, many kegs of beer and barbecued goats.
The mill store was one of the first natural foods businesses in the middle TN area.
A local moonshiner got his corn ground there and paid the bill in trade; shine buried in an oak keg for a year, it was the best I ever had.
Hopefully the restoration will continue and the mill returned to it's former glory.
Kenny
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Inside Readyville Mill
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