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Farther up the west side of the Greenbrier river at Stony 

 Bottom an old mill, known as the Galford mill, where Adam 

 Geiger's grist mill now stands, did the sawing for the inhabitants 

 of that section. 



On Leatlierbark creek there were 2 sash saw mills, one owned 

 by Allen Galford near Cass and the other about 5 miles up the 

 creek owned by James Cassell. 



Hugh McLaughlin owned a water saw mill about 4 miles 

 west of Durbin. 



Down on the east side of Greenbrier river Robert Gay built 

 a mill and sawed white pine on Beaver creek at the point where 

 the Underwood mill now stands. McCombs also had a saw mill 

 on this creek. 



On the waters of Knapps creek John Bradshaw, a pioneer set- 

 tler, built a saw mill just above Huntersville near the beginning 

 of the last century, and about the year 1830 Geo. Craig erected 

 a saw mill at the Gum Friel place. This mill, long known as the 

 Barker and Friel mill, did good work and was run steadily for 

 some time. Near Driscol, James T. Lockridge owned a saw mill 

 which was built by Peter Lightner some time before the year 

 1800. The lumber from this mill was hauled to the western 

 part of the county. Some of the ceiling, weatherboarding and 

 flooring, used by the late Alexander* W. Sharp in building one 

 of the first frame houses in the county, was sawed on this mill 

 and hauled by oxen for a distance of 20 miles. 



Washington Moore and Samuel Harper each had a saw and 

 grist mill on Knapps creek. James Sharp built a saw mill in 

 1825 near Frost on what is now the Aaron Sharp farm; and 

 labout the same time Rev. James Wanless erected a mill on the 

 John F. Wanless farm, and another on the Robert D. Mc- 

 Cutcheon place about 1835. Logs used in the first M. P. church 

 built in the county were squared on this mill. The mill at the 

 place now known as Dilleys Mill, was erected by the pioneer, 

 Henry Dilley, in 1830. 



At Dunmore on Sitlington creek Jacob Warwick built some 

 ikind of a saw mill in the early pioneer period. Later Isaac 

 Moore erected a mill, or rebuilt the Warwick mill, and operated 

 it steadily for many years. During a part of the time this mill 

 was kept running day and night in order to meet the demand 



