This mill was built c. 1844 as a warehouse to store and ship tobacco, flour and grains, located on the former James River and Kanawha Canal bank in Scottsville. It appears that the old warehouse is getting a new lease on life in 2008.

Sometimnes up to 300 barrels of flour were shipped on one boat, most often going to Richmond. Hotels and boarding houses sprang up along the downtown area bordering the canal to house teamsters, as wagon drivers brought wheat from as far away as the Shenandoah Valley to be ground in local Scottsville mills, then stored here before being shipped on to Richmond via the canal.

A vintage photo of the warehouse, probably from the mid-1930's as verified by the automobiles in the photo. It may be, that the building was now known as the Farmer's Exchange, which it was known as later through 1944, as it served as a farmer's co-op.

During the river boat-canal traffic, manufactured products goods were also brought back to Scottsville from Richmond, to be used by the townsfolk and farmers in their everyday existance.GPS: 37' 47.88'N, 78' 29.56'W 272'/83 meters Scottsville Quadrangle

Jefferson Mills, an 1800's nearby flour mill on the Hardware River and still standing, had operated a flour, feed, and seed store, called Jefferson Mills, between this warehouse and Main Street for many years, operated by the Moulton family from the 1920's thru the 1940's. Not sure what became of it.