1790
John Stough Builds a Mill on Wolf Creek
Oren F. Morton's 1914 county history reports that the Reverend John Stough built a small mill on Wolf Creek in 1790. Water reached the wheel through a spout set beneath a waterfall, and the millstones could grind about three bushels of corn per day.
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Oren F. Morton, A History of Preston County, West Virginia, vol. I (1914), p. 260
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