Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-22
- 0reoquan Mills.

Thu nroprietors offer for Sale TINS pa-
l.a5le Estate. consisting OF LaNDo,
MILLS, .MILL-SEATS, DWELLING
II USES, STORES & other Ualuaoie FRO
aerty--all upon navigation and convenient 10
market
To those who are unacQuainsed with the
premises i, NAV be stated that they are 81
tuated at the Falls of Occoquan River, IN
Virginia, which empties into the Potomae
Is miles below Alexandria and about or 10
below Mount Vernon, the seat OF the late
General Washington.
At no one spot, probably, can there be
united more advantages for flour mills, or a
ny kind of mandatory or mechanical ope-
ra,ions requiring tae agency OF water; the
stream is large, generally atorclng enough
for twenty water wheels at a time, coniiSu-
Gus to several ofthe finest wheat counties III
Virginia, and being upon navigation has' De
sides, the whole range of the river fotoIa ac
on both side. to IT'S mouth dlstanc c 81 a,
tsast 100 miles fhe great mail stage roao
from north to south passes thro' IT, post Oh
hce at the spot aud daily mail throughout
the year affords early and constant mtoin1a
ton of the state of markets and Whatever
'eIse nsy be interesting. The buildings here
in after described, with several others Heif
and owned by ID f@rent peop:e, gives TO the
place the appearance OF an handsome "ttie
village, remarked by strangers tor the ro-
mantle scenery around 1t, and by IFS ihhapi-
t.nts for the uncqaalied saIubriiy OF It's air
First in importance OF t e buildings is :
very complete Merchant Mill with ali the
most approved modern machinery Tor th'
mandatory Of -Four, of which article 1t ha.
and can make twenty thousand barrels yea
with ease. Next is a Country Ioll Mil,
which mas given annually three to TOUR hui
dred barrels of Indian Corn and other gran
from its toll alone there is also Mn! to-
pounding and grinding Plaster Paris, an ar
ticle in much request throughout the nelth
boring countrie, aweli constructed pay, NIL
in good repair; and Toll Bridge that pro
duces twelve hundred and htty to hiteen
hundred dollars year; b skies Whica there
are several well hted Store -houses, SIX az
eigh DWELLINGS suitable for tradesmen e%
elusive of their Work shops, and otad'g'
for at least fifty has;t OF horses and cattle
The whole i, ove@,o.ket BY q rye comn'o-
dious Stone NaNafa!, HOUSE, with every fni5
.ri,.ble tor the residence oi q Grntesi 'an'i-
w: and at the door is never-tallng opih%
Of fine Water :, ,,.t
yI,;mnroyeJ, are several valuable MI
Ssa,x two of which Immediately ldls'n ~
present and are suppittbie VITA water 't"'
the same race and dam hesiie 'heSe
there 10 nearly thirty feet more aeae ~ q To-
of water than has ever yet been iouad niece
sary to use in the present works. Other mi
NAV he erected so much abnvc AS not 10
terfere with those already mentioned. ~
deed So feet fail, which there IS here won
admit Of all the water being worked twice
yer if desired.
There is, belonging to the estate, near on
Thousand acres of LAND, some .dJ"in'"
and none of it very distant from the mill
mostly in wood and some p rts pretty W
timbered; tho gh Immediately adj inlng' ar
some we'll improved productiv Meadow at
Grain Land, & several enc!osed own To-
fit be asked why so desirable and pfScae
tive property should be offered Tor safe 1
may be answered T" that the adyahceo a'E
{. and distant residence OF two OF the pattnei
&c make narrower circle OF concer"s aes''
{. rable to ,hem--snd all the parties are &c
&c sirous to pay of their debts
Any person incl!nahle TO purchase VIII NV
the nricc reasonable, and the tine at pas
ment for large proporti n Of the pnrchas
money will be made as easy as the purchase
could expect or wish.
Fo, further particulars application m'y .
nod. IN lanes CAMPBELL at Petersburg
SAMUEL G., GRIrFIrE, Esquire oil na''l-
timore; JAMES Taylor, lun Esq OF MOI
folk: or on the premises 10 NArHAklfL | L
IIcorr and Luxe WKEsLsR the latter Q
whom will remain few weeks at this place
70 assist in effecting the object OF this adVer
tisement ;, =, ,,,,
EIIi;eott, Campbell g Wheeler.
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