Tacketts Mill Reproduction
Prince William Co. | Virginia | USA
Watersource: Tributary to Hooes Run & Occoquan Reservoir.
Tacketts Mill Reproduction
This mill sits in a mall in the village of Tackett's Mill, Lake Ridge, Va. in a new shopping complex. The Tacketts's Mill Shopping Complex is accessed from Sh 640/Minnieville Road just south of Sh 641/Prince William Pkwy. Turn onto Tacketts Mill Drive, cross Harbor Drive, and enter the shopping complex. The mill is visible from the entrance drives.
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Washington's First Journey to the Frontier (30) The mill at Tackett's Mill. On March 11, 1748, George Washington and George William Fairfax crossed the Occoquan above the falls near here - Washington to enter the service of Lord Fairfax, and Lord Fairfax to meet his constituents in Frederick County. They traveled by horseback on an unmarked route roughly paralleling the Davis Ford-Minnieville corridor to the Court House near Independent Hill. By evening they reached Neavil's Ordinary on the south fork of the Dumfries Road, 40 miles from Ft. Belvoir, the starting point. Prince William County Historical Commission - 1984 - Historical Marker Guide website
The overshot wheel at the reproduction mill.
The SE elevation of the mill, situated on a manmade pond that feeds a tributary to Hooes Run, which flows into the Occoquan Reservoir on the Occoquan River.
The waterside back of the mill in the Tackett's Mill shopping complex.GPS: 38' 40.49'N, 77' 16.87'W ele. 233'/71 meter Occoquan Quadrangle
A small reproduction covered bridge over the connection between the slightly higher upper pond and the lower millpond. Several large parking lots drain into both ponds.