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Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: Ricky Kirkland ()
Date: April 17, 2014 05:37PM

I am from Dothan, Alabama and have been researching my family's history. I have traced it all the way back to a Richard Kirtland who acquired 290 acres of land near Clifton. The property started at the intersection of Bull Run Creek and Pope's Head Creek and ran slightly southeast from that junction almost to Evan's Ford Road, while going south to around Yates Ford Road. In the description, I read that when he acquired the land around 1730, there was an existing Water Grist Mill on the property on Popes Head Creek. I am trying to determine if this Mill, or the ruins of it, are still visible. My wife and I will be in Washington on May 2-8 and i would love to get a pic of it if it still exists. If anyone has any knowledge of it, please let me know !!! From what I have seen in maps of the area, it could be in the Hemlock Overlook Park. Much of the park is in the area that once belonged to Richard Kirtland (see Pic)
Thanks !!
Ricky Kirkland
Dothan, Alabama
r.kirkland064@gmail.com
Attachments:
Kirkland Land Clifton VA.pdf

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: FCPL ()
Date: April 17, 2014 05:59PM

You should call the Virginia Room at the Fairfax Library. It's dedicated to local history. If there's info about it, they have it.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: Not Buying It ()
Date: April 17, 2014 06:00PM

So when you do these threads where you post these people's names and email addresses in hopes that we mess with them, are they randomly selected or do you already have your "victims" in mind?

Just curious.

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: guy smiley ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:17PM

Not Buying It Wrote:
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> So when you do these threads where you post these
> people's names and email addresses in hopes that
> we mess with them, are they randomly selected or
> do you already have your "victims" in mind?
>
> Just curious.


Wow. You're seriously paranoid and know nothing about local history.

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: Guy Frownly ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:20PM

guy smiley Wrote:
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> Not Buying It Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > So when you do these threads where you post
> these
> > people's names and email addresses in hopes
> that
> > we mess with them, are they randomly selected
> or
> > do you already have your "victims" in mind?
> >
> > Just curious.
>
>
> Wow. You're seriously paranoid and know nothing
> about local history.

Wow. You're seriously stupid and know nothing about Fairfax Underground and its penchant for troll threads...

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: TurleysMill ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:27PM

In sum, no - there are no known mill site ruins definitely associated with Richard Kirkland's mill. All that is known is that it was near Turley's Mill on the Popes Head Creek in the 1740s. But no one knows where that was either.

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: helper ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:45PM

This might help (and so might the book referenced on the site):

http://www.clifton-va.com/index.php/about-clifton/clifton-brigadoon-in-virginia/2-uncategorised/12-settlement-of-the-clifton-area-chapter-ii

Don't think the mill is still around, but maybe remnants remain at the site?

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: helper ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:46PM

Apparently not, per TurleysMill.

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: 18 and life to go! ()
Date: April 17, 2014 08:51PM

Ricky was a wild boy, he had a heart of stone.

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: Its there ()
Date: April 18, 2014 08:52PM

Parts of it are on the right it the offices for a construction business

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Re: Grist Mill on Pope's Head Creek
Posted by: GBW ()
Date: April 18, 2014 09:37PM

Its there Wrote:
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> Parts of it are on the right it the offices for a
> construction business


Would you like to translate that statement?

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