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You can almost assent to the rush of water tumbling back into the Occoquan River after turning the rowwheel that powered the first automated grist mill in the United States.
The stones along the riverbanks look like they've been splashed. Mill High road looks muddy enough to mess up your shoes. The mill looks well used and beat and there is soot that stains the tops of the chimneys.
It also looks like reasonable about every known picture of Merchant's Mill that was built in Occoquan in the 1750s and burned down in 1924. The miller's domicile, which stood beside it, still exists and is used as the Occoquan Historical Society's Mill Domicile Museum.
Occoquan Town Councilman James Walbert has recently completed the working model he built of the iconic structure, often viewed as a symbol of the town's noteworthy beginnings.
"I was completely blown away by it," Occoquan Mayor Earnie Porta said. "I could not have anticipated it was common to look so fantastic.
"He put a lot of work into to it," Porta said. "It is definitely a labor of regard.
Source: Inside NoVA