Burwell-Morgan Mill

  • Also Known As: Millwood Mill

  • Address: At jct of Rtes. 723 and 255
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The Burwell-Morgan Mill is a two-story structure with gable roof and consists of a down slope basement and first level of stone topped by a frame second story and attic addition. The mill, approximately forty-five feet by sixty feet, has small eight-over-eight as well as twelve-over-eight sash windows with segmental arched lintels on the first floor while the frame section has twelve-over-eight sash. The attic is lighted on the gable ends by eight-over-eight sash windows on two levels. The head race has been reopened in the present restoration and enters the building from the west by a stone flume. After pouring over the rebuilt water wheel of Peruvian mahogany, the water is channeled under a fifteen foot stone barrel vault to the tailrace. The gears that run the mill machinery were taken from a mill built circa 1750 near Middleburg and rebuilt. These gears rotate the turn stone over the bed stone in the two pairs of Buhrs (millstones) --one for corn and one for wheat. The plaster remaining on two adjacent stone walls around a comer fireplace on the first level indicate the location of the old mill office which will be rebuilt. In the restoration, the empty second story will be used as a meeting place of the Clarke County HistoricaL Society. - NRHP, 12 August 1969


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1785/00/00 Nathaniel Burwell Owner Burwell-Morgan Mill is built for Nathaniel Burwell and Daniel Morgan who saw the advantage of the fall in Spour Run on property belonging to Colonel Burwell.
1785/00/00 Daniel Morgan Owner Burwell-Morgan Mill is built for Nathaniel Burwell and Daniel Morgan who saw the advantage of the fall in Spour Run on property belonging to Colonel Burwell.

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Particulars for Burwell-Morgan Mill:
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th November 1969

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Burwell-Morgan Mill
Registry Address: At jct. of Rtes. 723 and 255
Registry Number: 69000233
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 1
Contributing Buildings: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Industry, Commerce, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person
Period of Significance: 1750-1799
Significant Year: c 1785
Associated People: Burwell,Col. Nathaniel
Historic Function: Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Manufacturing facility
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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