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Colvin Run Mill is in Great Falls, Virginia. Built circa 1813, Colvin Run Mill is the sole surviving operational nineteenth-century water-powered mill in the Washington, DC, metro area, and its restored mechanism is a nationally significant example of automated technologies pioneered in milling and later adopted across American industry. [1]
Down the gravel path of the park is the miller's house, home to the families who ran the mill. In 1883, Addison Millard moved his family here when he bought the old mill. Addison, his wife Emma, and some of their 20 children lived there. When Addison died, the family stayed and operated the mill until 1934. [2]
In the mid-1930's the mill was abandoned, and highway development caused the mill to be cut off from any near-by water source. The mill was later acquired by the Fairfax County Park Authority,repaired, and made open to the public.[3]
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