Pounding Mill Overlook - elev. 4700' (Milepost 413.0)

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	Pounding Mill Overlook - elev. 4700' (Milepost 413.0)

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Overlook Description

More than a century ago, mountain people would build a hammer type mill to grind corn. The mills were water powered and built along streams such as Pounding Mill Branch.

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Excerpt adaptations from Blue Ridge Parkway Guide: Volume 1 (by William G. Lord), Blue Ridge Parkway Guide: Volume 2 (by William G. Lord), Guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway - 3rd Edition (by Victoria Logue, Frank Logue, and Nicole Blouin). Copyright 1981 by the American Chestnut Foundation. Reprint by permission of Menasha Ridge Press.

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