Glade Creek Grist Mill

It's November - my most hated month and that's because it's so colorless and gray. So I thought I'd post one last brilliant autumn image perhaps to... more

by Lianne Schneider

Title

Glade Creek Grist Mill

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

It's November - my most hated month and that's because it's so colorless and gray. So I thought I'd post one last brilliant autumn image perhaps to carry me through to snow and holidays. Another in the "Simple Life" series that began with "Gimme That Ol' Time Religion." This painting is based on a public domain photograph (courtesy of Forest Wander) of the old Glade Creek mill located in Babcock State Park in West Virginia. This is my second digitally hand-painted view of the mill and a have a winter one yet to post.

The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a new mill that was completed in 1976 at Babcock. Fully operable, this mill was built as a re-creation of one which once ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. Known as Cooper's Mill, it stood on the present location of the park's administration building parking lot.

Of special interest, the mill was created by combining parts and pieces from three mills which once dotted the state. The basic structure of the mill came from the Stoney Creek Grist Mill which dates back to 1890. It was dismantled and moved piece by piece to Babcock from a spot near Campbelltown in Pocahontas County. After an accidental fire destroyed the Spring Run Grist Mill near Petersburg, Grant County, only the overshot water wheel could be salvaged. Other parts for the mill came from the Onego Grist Mill near Seneca Rocks in Pendleton County.

A living monument to the over 500 mills which thrived in West Virginia at the turn of the century, the Glade Creek Grist Mill provides freshly ground cornmeal which park guests may purchase depending on availability and stream conditions. Visitors to the mill may journey back to the time when grinding grain by a rushing stream was a way of life, and the groaning mill wheel was music to the miller's ear. The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a replica of the original Cooper's Mill that was located nearby. The current grist mill, completed in 1976, was assembled from parts of three other West Virginia mills. The park's web site describes the Glade Creek Grist Mill as a living, working monument to the more than 500 mills that used to set throughout the state.

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November 2nd, 2013