Bunker Hill Mill

Bunker Hill Mill

Bunker Hill Mill State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Kevin Bond

Bunker Hill Mill

c. 1730s. 1887. Berkeley County 26 at the crossing of Mill Creek, .8 mile east of the intersection with U.S. 11 at Bunker Hill

The limestone walls of this flour mill, largely rebuilt after an 1887 fire, occupy one of the state's earliest mill sites and may incorporate portions of a gristmill established by 1738. The capacious roof that caps the three-story walls contains two additional stories, lit by windows in the gable ends. The mill operated commercially until 1964, and its equipment is intact. The miller's house, a brick building of c. 1840 with a recessed two-story porch in the ell (a typical regional feature), stands nearby. The buildings, along with the adjacent millrace and millpond, present a handsome grouping in their rural setting. A number of other mills were built along appropriately named Mill Creek in the eighteenth century, but most were destroyed in the Civil War.

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