Over the decades, other groups started using Jackson's Mill. Lamb, who got his first job in the dining hall in 1959, remembers. You had to shuck corn, go ahead and pluck your chickens, whatever. WVU football team. Had to fix filet mignon for them guys.
Police use the mill's airstrip to practice for high-speed chases.
Firefighters will soon have a hands-on fire school there, as part of the new construction planned by West Virginia University, which oversees Jackson's Mill. The McWhorter Cabin, built a few miles away at Jane Lew in 1793, is set up with the furnishings and layout of a house from that time. The Mary Conrad Cabin, built nearly 200 years ago in nearby Roanoke, W.Va. So beautiful' Nowadays, visitors can stay in the new motellike lodge and land their private planes at the airstrip. Things have changed at Jackson's Mill.