Reed's Mill is a historic

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

and national

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located at Secondcreek,

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. The district includes two contributing buildings and eight contributing structures. It was one of the original mill complexes of Secondcreek. The main mill building was built about 1791, and is a mortise and tenon frame structure held together with wooden pins, and sits atop a raised cut stone basement. A tall three-story section with basement was added in 1949. The district also includes the mill dam, wing-dam, mill race lined with rock and ending in the mill pond, and concrete mill race that carries water to the turbine (1872) which operates the grinding wheels in the mill. It remains an operating mill. It was listed on the

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in 1993. Reed's Mill, Second Creek.jpg, Reed's Mill ReedMillInterior.jpg, Interior of the Mill

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Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Industrial buildings completed in 1914 Buildings and structures in Monroe County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, West Virginia Historic districts in Monroe County, West Virginia {{MonroeCountyWV-NRHP-stub