Tag: Johnson’s Mill (Petersburg VA)

Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book Of The War. Vol. 2, No. 80 says: Johnson’s Mill, Petersburg, Virginia. May, 1865. This property, recently, and for many years, better known as Furt’s Mill, is situated just below Bolling’s Dam, on the Appomattox River, near Campbell’s Bridge. It is one of the several large establishments which the city of Petersburg boasts for the manufacture of flour. At the height of the grinding season, we are informed, it is capable of turning out about three hundred barrels daily.

The dam constitutes the terminus of tide-water on this stream, and, with its surroundings, is the subject of one of “Shaw’s Illustrations of American Scenery,” published in New York, on a large scale, upwards of forty years ago.

The Mill, we further learn, was originally built in seventeen hundred and seventy-three by Mr. Bolling.