Named after owner Charles Mercer’s Scottish ancestral home Aldie Castle, Aldie Mill survives as one of the best outfitted early mills in Virginia. The mill was built in 1807 by Mercer’s partner William Cooke. The Virginia Outdoors Foundation acquired landmark in 1981 for restoration as an operational example of an early 19th-century wheat and corn mill.

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1. Marguerite Sciandra Says:
   April 8th, 2010 at 10:32 am

   My maternal grandfather and great-grandfather Feagan worked at the Aldie Mill, and my maternal grandmother’s family (Gulick) lived across the road. Following my great-grandmother’s death, the property was inherited by my mother’s cousin, Allen Gulick. Before marrying, my grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse which must have been located nearby.

   Is there an Aldie historian or someone with historical knowledge I might correspond with? Thank you so much.

2. Gary Van Meter Says:
   February 17th, 2011 at 1:27 am

   I went to grades 1-4 in the Aldie Elementary School from 1955 to 1959, and one of my teachers was Mrs. Gulick. As I recall she taught a combined 2nd and 3rd grade with over 50 students, as I had her both years. I recall she lived on a farm on the opposite side of route 50 from the school. The school had 6 rooms I think, but behind it was the old one room schoolhouse where we’d go for music class-probably because we made so much noise that if taught in the regular school. It still had the old fashioned school desks. I don’t know when the “New” 6 room school was built.

   One of my best friends was Ned Douglas, whose family owned the old Aldie Grist Mill. I recall Ned giving me a tour of the mill when it was still operational. The last I heard Ned was the onsite Director of the mill Foundation, and thus still lives nearby. He was in my class. I’ve been in California since 1969.

   Gary