Mount Vernon Mill No. 1

ID: 2248 ~ Source: ~ Creator: Eli Pousson ~ Date: 2019 June 15
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Mount Vernon Mill No. 1
This file appears in: Mount Vernon Mill No. 1

By Kyle Fisher
Mill No. 1 sits on the site of Laurel Mill, a late 18th-century flour mill originally owned by prominent businessman and abolitionist Elisha Tyson. In 1849, the newly chartered Mount Vernon Company built a textile mill on the site. Mill No. 1 stood…