Mabry Mill in the Blue Ridge Mountains
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Mabry Mill in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
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The picturesque Mabry Mill in the small community of Meadows of Dan, Virginia, is a restored gristmill and sawmill in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is widely considered one of the most photographed historic sites in the United States.
Although I photographed the mill here in the spring, I thought it was worth noting that we had a cold snap and several days of frost in the mountains, colors starting changing in the trees, almost making this look like an early autumn image.
Ed Mabry, the mill’s owner, had been working as a blacksmith in the coalfields of West Virginia when he returned home and began construction on the mill in 1903. Ed, a man known for being able to do anything, first ran it as a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, and then it later became a sawmill. By 1905, Ed was operating as a gristmill. The front part of the mill was completed and included a lathe for turning out wheel hubs, a tongue and groove lathe, a planer, and a jig-saw in 1910. Ed passed away in 1936, two years before planning for the Blue Ridge Parkway began, and the decision was made to save his mill as a cultural site.
Mabry Mill is located at mile 176.2 on the Virginia section of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Copyright 2020 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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May 17th, 2020
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