{"nrhp_refnum":"82003515","name":"Jessup's Mill","other_names":["Stokes County Union Milling Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 4132","address_restricted":false,"city":"Collinstown","county":"Stokes County","state":"NC","lat":36.525741554000035,"lon":-80.37126359799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-a-half-story frame roller mill complex on the Dan River near Collinstown, Stokes County, North Carolina, built in 1910 with a 1913 replacement dam, millrace, former miller's house and warming room.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an outstanding, virtually intact and unusually early roller mill complex, and the only corn mill in Stokes County. It pioneered adapting urban roller-mill technology to a rural, water-powered setting before rural electrification in the 1930s. It also may yield archaeological information about early twentieth century milling.","narrative":"Jessup's Mill is a tall, timber-framed roller mill beside the Dan River near Collinstown, in Stokes County, North Carolina. Local residents pooled money in 1910 to form the Stokes County Union Milling Company and build it, hiring D. H. Jessup as miller. Water turbines power three milling systems: roller flour, stone-ground cornmeal and hammer-mill feed. A concrete dam built in 1913 replaced the original log dam, which a flood washed away. The complex also includes a millrace, a small cottage once used as the miller's house and a warming room where wagoners waited out cold weather, since the insurance company barred fires in the mill. The mill matters because roller mills were usually urban and run by steam or electricity, yet this one combined that technology with river power in the countryside. It ground corn into flour, meal and feed for nearly seventy years, until floods in 1979 and 1980 caused heavy damage. It is the only corn mill in Stokes County.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","D"],"status_note":"Operated continuously until damaged by a flood in September 1979 and again in April 1980; plans were underway to reopen it. Condition listed as fair, unaltered, original site.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.138638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7222/47722282/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003515/53e978ea25-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003515/53e978ea25-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kathryn Meyer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessup_Mill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathryn Meyer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessup_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessup%27s_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6187908"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stokes-county/jessups-mill-82003515/"}