White Mill and White’s Mill are not the same workplace

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Two preservation records distinguish cloth production from gristmilling.

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Danville’s record

Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources identifies Danville’s White Mill as Dan River Mill No. 8, built in 1920 and operated from 1921 into the 1990s. The register entry describes a textile-manufacturing building, not the water-powered gristmill in the similarly named Washington County record.

A different mill and county

DHR’s White’s Mill entry concerns Washington County. It dates the present mill to about 1840 and describes an overshot waterwheel and later roller-milling machinery.

These are two named properties, not stages in one building’s conversion from grain to cloth.

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DHR — Dan River Mill No. 8

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DHR — White’s Mill

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