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.