Fine Creek Mills Historic District

Fine Creek Mills is a small rural community in Powhatan County, Virginia, that grew around a gristmill built in 1735 by Edward Scott on land leased from John Pleasants. The district covers about 15 acres on both sides of Robert E. Lee Road and includes the stone ruins of the mill, the archaeological site of the house where Peter Jefferson lived until 1741, an 18th-century log Miller's House, and early 20th-century buildings: a gatehouse, school, store and the Chase-Harris House. The gatehouse served as a ferry ticket office, post office and later a cheese factory, reflecting the road to the James River ferry at Lee's Landing and the railroad to Richmond. The community flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with several stores, a sawmill, a cooper's shop and a blacksmith shop. It was listed for its role as a milling and commercial center and for the range of architecture tied to community functions between about 1735 and 1940.