I spent my birthday in the beautiful Babcock State Park in West Virginia, this Fall. I spent a lot of time exploring the woods and creek area and the Grist Mill on Glade Creek.

Canon EOS 7D. Canon EF 17-40L lens @ 17mm.

“The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a new mill that was completed in 1976 at Babcock. Fully operable, this mill was built as a re-creation of one which once ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. Known as Cooper’s Mill, it stood on the present location of the park’s administration building parking lot. Of special interest, the mill was created by combining parts and pieces from three mills which once dotted the state. A living monument to the over 500 mills which thrived in West Virginia at the turn of the century, the Glade Creek Grist Mill provides freshly ground cornmeal and buckwheat flour which park guests may purchase.” (WV State Park Official Site.)