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From the book:
This
Was Virginia 1900-1927
As Shown
by the Glass Slides of
J.Harry
Shannon,
The Rambler
By:
Connie Pendleton Stuntz
Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz
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buy this book!
Hallmark
Publishing Company,Inc.
P.O. Box
901
Gloucester,
VA 23062-0901
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This is just
about the best picture I have ever seen of the Merchant's Mill still intact.
July 4, 1920
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The North side
of the Merchant's Mill.
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"Above the
old village of Occoquan are the falls in the creek and utilizing the difference
in the level of the water; a flume or race which might be called a small
canal was built ever so many years ago to carry water to turn the wheel
of a cotton facrory, now a gray and stately ruin and also to turn the wheel
of a venerable grist mill."
July 4,
1920
"The village
of Occoquan, the old mill town to which the Mary Washington [River
Boat] used to run on excursions...was established a town by Act of Virginia
legislature January 5, 1804, though it was quite a milling and manufacturing
seat before the town was created"
July
18, 1920
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