Men, women and small children surrounded by ice and snow are standing at the lower mill in Mill Point. This mill was built on the banks of Stamping Creek by Valentine Cackley, Jr. and operated by the Hogsett family. This mill had a wool carding machine connected to it for making wool yarn and wool batting for bed quilts. A flash flood in 1935 washed the foundation from under the mill building. Within the next year the building fell into the creek. (Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection, Photo Courtesy of Lloyd Wilson, Information by Elsie Long in “History of Pocahontas County W.Va. 1981.” ID: PHS001164)
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