Hopewell (Millville, West Virginia)

Infobox_nrhp | name =Hopewell
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caption =
nearest_city= Charles Town, West Virginia
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 16
lat_seconds = 4
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 77
long_minutes = 47
long_seconds = 36
long_direction = W
locmapin = West Virginia
area =
built =1765
architect= Little, William, Sr.
architecture= Other
added = March 25, 1994
governing_body = Private
refnum=94000214cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Hopewell, also known as Hopewell Mills and Hopewell Farm, was established around 1765 by William Little, Sr., who built grain and saw mills near the Shenandoah River. In 1827, William Little, Jr. sold the property to James Hite and Jacob Newcomer. Hite named the property "Hopewell", identifying the mill with a place in Leetown also named Hopewell, where there was a Quaker meeting house. Hite's descendant, Thomas Hite Willis, operated and expanded the mill, adding a woolen mill. The woolen mill operated until the 1920s providing uniforms for the Army.

The complex includes a log-and-clapboard house, built "circa" 1765 with twentieth century additions, a tenant house (known as the "Viand Cottage") from the same era and of similar construction, several outbuildings and the ruins of the woolen mill, "circa" 1850. citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/jefferson/94000214.pdf National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Hopewell] |3.32 MB|date=November 20, 1993 |author=Jean T. Crolius|publisher=National Park Service]

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