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Babcock State Park offers its guests 4,127 acres of serene, yet rugged beauty, a
fast flowing trout stream in a boulder-strewn canyon and mountainous vistas to
be viewed from several scenic overlooks. All of this variety is located adjacent
to the New River Gorge National 'River and the heart of the whitewater rafting
industry of West Virginia.
The Glade Creek Grist Mill
The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a new mill that was completed in 1976 at Babcock.
Fully operable, this mill was built as a re-creation of one which once ground
grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. Known as Cooper's
Mill, it stood on the present location of the park's administration building
parking lot.
grist mill of babcock state park Of special interest, the mill was created by
combining parts and pieces from three mills which once dotted the state. The
basic structure of the mill came from the Stoney Creek Grist Mill which dates
back to 1890. It was dismantled and moved piece by piece to Babcock from a spot
near Campbelltown in Pocahontas County. After an accidental fire destroyed the
Spring Run Grist Mill near Petersburg, Grant County, only the overshot water
wheel could be salvaged. Other parts for the mill came from the Onego Grist Mill
near Seneca Rocks in Pendleton County.
A living monument to the over 500 mills which thrived in West Virginia at the
turn of the century, the Glade Creek Grist Mill provides freshly ground cornmeal
and buckwheat flour which park guests may purchase. Visitors to the mill may
journey back to the time when grinding grain by a rushing stream was a way of
life, and the groaning mill wheel was music to the miller's ear.
Babcock State Park
HC 35, Box 150
Clifftop, WV 25831
(304) 438-3004
1-800-CALL WVA
E-mail: babcock@wvdnr.gov |
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