Armentrout Mill / Thundershower Mill
Shenandoah Co. | Virginia | USA
Watersource: Holman Creek.
Armentrout Mill / Thundershower Mill
Take Sh 42 northwest from Timberville for about 2 miles, turn left on Sh 728, go about 2 miles to junction with Sh 614. The mill is on the right on Holman Creek.
A smaller 25'X 35'story mill. Two stories of limestone provide support for an additional 1.5 stories of frame construction.
The mill as situated with the bridge on Sh 728 over Holman Creek at the junction with Sh 614.
Interior of Thundershower Mill taken in 1970.
The steel wheel is still in place although most of the other equipment has been removed. *Update: The steel mill wheel seen in the picture cannot be the original. The original wheel was used for scrap during the Second World War. I know this to be true because the old timers that lived there in the late 1960s and early 1970s told me this. I lived in the big house across the street from the mill during this time. Herbert W. Childs 03/30/2010*
The mill is located in an area locally known as Moore's Store, an early community that grew up around this well preserved example of early industrial America.
A somewhat unusual front to this mill, lacking the common stacked doors as seen in this photo taken from Sh 614.
Interior of Thundershower Mill taken in 1970.
Interior of Thundershower Mill taken in 1970.
Interior of Thundershower Mill taken in 1970.
Exterior of Thundershower Mill taken in 1970.
Wagon near Thundershower Mill about 1880-1900.