The 19th-century mill village of Rio Mills stood 600 yards west of here, where the former Harrisonburg-Charlottesville Turnpike crossed the South Fork of the Rivana River. Following the Battle of Rio Hill on 29 February 1864, Union General George Armstron Custer burned the covered bridge and gristmill at Rio Mills. Immediately rebuilt under the direction of Abraham L. Hildebrand, the gristmill continued to grind wheat and corn for the Confederacy. The milling operation apparently closed down soon after 1900.
Department of Historic Resources 1990
US 29 (sign is on the southbound side) just before the Rivanna River. Albemarle County Virginia.
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