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Edom Roller Mills / I.L.Burruss Feed Mill
Mill No: Va-78-07-02-Edom Roller Mills / I.L.Burruss Feed Mill

State -

Virginia
County -

Rockingham Co.
Township -

Linville Creek Twp.
Year -

Earlier mill c. 1826, this mill 1867-69
Water Source -

Linville Creek / Diesel power
 

Pictures by: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 - The first mill documented on the site was operated by John Chrisman sometime around 1826. The next owner was Isaac Wenger, who owned Wengers Mill a mile north of Edom on Linville Creek, when the northern army came through during the Civil War in 1864. He had just bought the Wengers Mill the year before from the Coffman family. He must have sold his ownership in the Edom Mill at that time to John T. Beery, who owned the mill in 1864, when it too was burned by the same bunch of raiders from the Grand Army of the Republic (Union Army).
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 The first mill documented on the site was operated by John Chrisman sometime around 1826. The next owner was Isaac Wenger, who owned Wengers Mill a mile north of Edom on Linville Creek, when the northern army came through during the Civil War in 1864. He had just bought the Wengers Mill the year before from the Coffman family. He must have sold his ownership in the Edom Mill at that time to John T. Beery, who owned the mill in 1864, when it too was burned by the same bunch of raiders from the Grand Army of the Republic (Union Army).


Pictures by: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 - Mr. Beery rebuilt the Edom Mill with stone sometime between 1867 and 1869. This was unusual in that most reconstructions of mills in Virginia resulting from burning by the Union forces were usually done in wood frame/weatherboarding construction materials.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 Mr. Beery rebuilt the Edom Mill with stone sometime between 1867 and 1869. This was unusual in that most reconstructions of mills in Virginia resulting from burning by the Union forces were usually done in wood frame/weatherboarding construction materials.


Pictures by: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 - The steel wheel shown still in place on the back of the mill/south side that was fed with an elevated wooden flume coming off a millrace from Linville Creek near where Buttermilk Creek enters Linville Creek form the south. The water flume approached the wheel just as the photo view approaches the wheel. The double arched concrete bridge in front of the mill/north end was built as the first non-fording access to the mill in Edom across the West Fork of Linville Creek in either 1914 or 1919.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 The steel wheel shown still in place on the back of the mill/south side that was fed with an elevated wooden flume coming off a millrace from Linville Creek near where Buttermilk Creek enters Linville Creek form the south. The water flume approached the wheel just as the photo view approaches the wheel. The double arched concrete bridge in front of the mill/north end was built as the first non-fording access to the mill in Edom across the West Fork of Linville Creek in either 1914 or 1919.


Pictures by: Robert T. Kinsey 1/12/2005 - The mill was later operated by Lee and Perry Swank before C.W. Burruss took over the operation in 1907. About 2 years later, he purchased the Edom Roller Mills. The village was never very big, just a simple small hamlet where a farmer could find the necessities of life to make a decent living.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 1/12/2005 The mill was later operated by Lee and Perry Swank before C.W. Burruss took over the operation in 1907. About 2 years later, he purchased the Edom Roller Mills. The village was never very big, just a simple small hamlet where a farmer could find the necessities of life to make a decent living.


Pictures by: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 - The mill burned again in 1960 while under the ownership of I.L. Burruss. There may have been some sort of a connection between the diesel engine used for power and the resultant fire. The first two floors of the mill were part of the rebuilt mill with a flat roof that sloped slightly west to east. The mill was primarily a feed mill at the time of the fire and continued to operate as such for a number of years thereafter. Stickells Blue Ridge Feeds were a primary brand sold at the mill in its latter years. Today the wheel is still there, but almost the entire east wall is broken out, with the roof propped to keep it from collapsing at that point.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 11/12/2005 The mill burned again in 1960 while under the ownership of I.L. Burruss. There may have been some sort of a connection between the diesel engine used for power and the resultant fire. The first two floors of the mill were part of the rebuilt mill with a flat roof that sloped slightly west to east. The mill was primarily a feed mill at the time of the fire and continued to operate as such for a number of years thereafter. Stickells Blue Ridge Feeds were a primary brand sold at the mill in its latter years. Today the wheel is still there, but almost the entire east wall is broken out, with the roof propped to keep it from collapsing at that point.




Directions: From Us 33 in Harrisonburg, go north on Sh 42 for 7 miles to Edom. Located on Old 42 loop behind a building that was a store and/or service station.

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