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Title Grist Mill
Date August 21, 1957
Description Image of the interior of a grist mill in the Mabry Mill area near milepost 176.1, section 1T of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are multiple signs, one describing the grist mill and another sign that gives the products and costs of things produced in Mabry Mill. The products sign reads, "Mabry Mill/Products/Corn Meal 2lb Bag 35 cents/Corn Meal 5lb. Bag 75 cents/Grits 2lb. Bag 35 cents/Buckwheat Flour 70 cents." Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Earl W. Estes, Jr. on August 21, 1957.
Location Location Name: Mabry Mill (Va.)
Parkway Milepost: 176.1
Latitude: 36.75
Longitude: -80.404722
Creator Individual Earl W. Estes, Jr.
Tags Floyd County (Va.)
Mabry Mill (Va.)
Machinery
Photographs
Signs and signboards
Water mills
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway