{"nrhp_refnum":"91001596","name":"Hanger Mill","other_names":["Huff Mill","DHR File No. 07-1211"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 801 and US 250","address_restricted":false,"city":"Churchville","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.21948661600004,"lon":-79.13571385499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story frame gristmill with a limestone foundation, built around 1860 for Jacob Hanger at the intersection of State Route 801 and U.S. Route 250, east of Churchville in Augusta County, Virginia. Four noncontributing buildings stand on the same 7.5-acre property.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the mill as an excellent original example of mid-nineteenth-century mill construction that keeps most of its milling machinery. Augusta County had eighty-one mills after the Civil War, and fewer than twenty stand today, most with much of their machinery lost. The mill also stayed in the Hanger family line and operated commercially until 1940.","narrative":"Hanger Mill is a gristmill east of Churchville in Augusta County, Virginia, built around 1860 for Jacob Hanger. It is a 2 1/2-story frame building with weatherboard siding, a metal gable roof and a coursed limestone foundation. Water from Jennings Branch once drove a wooden overshot wheel, replaced in the 1920s by the metal wheel that remains. Inside, much of the original framing and floors survive, along with a large share of the machinery. It includes a millstone system with grist wheels, one inscribed with Hanger's name and the date 1861, and a roller press system on the upper floors. The 1860 census listed it as a merchant mill, grinding wheat, corn and rye for sale. Later owners kept it running until 1940. The nomination notes that Augusta County once had eighty-one mills after the Civil War and that fewer than twenty remain, most stripped of machinery. The mill is used for storage today, and four newer or altered outbuildings do not contribute to the listing.","period_of_significance":"1860-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown builder; built for Jacob Hanger","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":[],"status_note":"The mill has not operated since the early twentieth century (milling ended in 1940) and is currently used for storage only. The machinery remains in very good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.695614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6796/41679683/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91001596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001596/19a443c57c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001596/19a443c57c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanger_Mill_with_fence.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanger_Mill_with_fence.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679683","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanger_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712456"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/hanger-mill-91001596/"}