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Title Water-wheel shaft in place
Title Note Used in McCarter's Report of Mabry Mill Restoration
Date June 1942
Description Image of workers working on the pond facing sides of Mabry Mill near milepost 176.1, section 1T of the Blue Ridge Parkway. One worker is standing on stacked wooded blocks to work on the water wheel shaft. And two other workers working on the mill's foundation. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Kenneth McCarter in June 1942.
Location Location Name: Mabry Mill (Va.)
Parkway Milepost: 176.1
Latitude: 36.75
Longitude: -80.404722
Creator Individual Kenneth McCarter
Tags Bodies of water
Construction
Floyd County (Va.)
Mabry Mill (Va.)
Photographs
Water mills
Workers
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway