1993

Blaker's Mill is reconstructed and restored to working order.

Originally constructed in 1794 in Greenbrier County, Virginia. It was donated to Jackson’s Mill by the Blaker family in the mid-1980s and was reconstructed in the Jackson’s Mill Historic area and restored to working order in 1993. Blaker’s Mill is a four-story heavy timber framed structure with a sandstone foundation and a gabled roof. The mill has a rectangular plan and includes the original working mill machinery, including wooden water-powered gears, massive millstones and leather pocket, tin-pocket and wooden-pocket grain elevators. The exterior of the mill is wood siding painted brown. The front façade of building has a doorway at the ground level and two hoist ways on the upper levels. Intermittent small windows mark the elevations of the mill. A pond was constructed when Blaker’s Mill was relocated and provides power through a sluice to run the mill for demonstrations.