Cook's Mill

Cook's Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location:	County Route 2, near Greenville, West Virginia
Coordinates:	37°32′42″N 80°41′14″W / 37.545°N 80.68722°W / 37.545; -80.68722Coordinates: 37°32′42″N 80°41′14″W / 37.545°N 80.68722°W / 37.545; -80.68722
Area:	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built:	1857
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	88001857[1]
Added to NRHP:	February 6, 1989

Cook's Mill, also known as The Old Mill and The Greenville Mill, is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district located near Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes one contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main mill building was built in 1857 on the original stone foundation and site of an earlier mill built in approximately 1796. It is a 2 1/2 story, plus basement, hand-hewn post-and-beam building, with massive timbers pegged at their mortis and tennon joints. The district also includes the dam, mill pond, tail race and stream.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ James P. Wells (May 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cook's Mill". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/monroe/88001857.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-18.