Colvin Run Mill

S of Great Falls at 10017 Colvin Run Rd., Great Falls, Virginia. County/parish: Fairfax.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 16, 1977. NRIS 77001487.

4 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Colvin Run Mill

Colvin Run Mill is in Great Falls, Virginia. Built c. 1811, Colvin Run Mill is the sole surviving operational 19th-century water-powered mill in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and its restored mechanism is a nationally significant example of automated technologies pioneered in milling and later adopted across American industry.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680475

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