"N7T 1976 Status Occupied Accessible No Federal State X County Xlocal Present Use Private Residence 6

Home , Cabin John Creek, Muddy Branch, Piney Branch

ACHS SUMMARY FORM M: 26-5 1. Name: Watt's Branch Miller's House (Veirs Log Cabin) MAGI #1650055204

2. Planning Area/Site Number: 26/5 3. M-NCPPC Atlas Reference: Map 15 Coordinate C-14 m.. Address: 1050 W. Montgomery Avenue Rockville, Md. 5. Classification Summary Category building Previous Survey Recording MNCPPC Ownership private Title and Date: Historic Sites Inventory Public Acquisition^ "N7T 1976 Status occupied Accessible no Federal State x County xLocal Present use private residence 6. Date: 1790s 7. Original Owner: Richard Wootton 8» Apparent Condition

a. excellent b. alte red c< original site . Description: This log and frame house sits at the end of a dirt road near Watts Branch Creek, facing northeast. Built in two sections: the northwest sections is log, it is three bays across and one and a half stories high. The southeast section is frame and is three bays across and two and a half stories in height. The frame section is irregularly shaped and projects forward from the log house. The log house has V-notched logs and concrete chinking. The frame section has beige beaded clapboarding. Both sections have six-over-six double-hung windows. The log section has a gable roof, the frame section has a hipped roof with %3bestos shingles.

10. Significance: This log and frame dwelling is a fine example of an early cabin which grew to meet the needs of the families who lived in it. It sits on land once owned by the "father" of Montgomery County, Dr. Thomas Sprigg Wootton, who introduced the successful resolution on August 31> 1776> to divide Frederick County into 3 parts — Washington, Frederick, and Montgomery Counties. Wootton's son, Richard, probably had the log dwelling constructed in the 1790s. The mill was operating by 1821. In 1848, Turner and Olivia C. Wootton separated the ownership of the mill from that of the miller's house by selling 229 acres and the dwelling to Chandler Keys, reserving the right of way into the family burial ground and the privileges of the 'stream . The saw and grist mill operated until about 1919 when the property was sold to Charles Veirs. The present owners purchased the house in 1953-

Candy Reed/ Architectural Description • ... Researcher and date researched: Michael Dwyer, Sharon Green 2/79 12. Compiler: Gail Rothrock 13. Date Compiled: 2/79 Ih. Designation Approval 15. Acreage: 5.635 acres plus right of way M: 26/5 Magi # MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST 1650055204

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

QNAME

HISTORIC Watts Branch Miller's House AND/OR COMMON Veirs Log Cabin HLOCATION

STREET & NUMBER 1050 W. Montgomery Avenue CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Rockville VICINITY OF 8 STATE COUNTY Maryland Montgomery CLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENTUSE _DISTRICT —PUBLIC ^LoCCUPIED —AGRICULTURE —MUSEUM X_BUILDING(S) ^-PRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED —COMMERCIAL —PARK —STRUCTURE — BOTH —WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL ^-PRIVATE RESIDENCE _SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE —ENTERTAINMENT —RELIGIOUS —OBJECT _IN PROCESS —YES RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT —SCIENTIFIC m —BEING CONSIDERED _YES: UNRESTRICTED —INDUSTRIAL —TRANSPORTATION XNO —MILITARY —OTHER QfOWNER OF PROPERTY

NAME A.B. and Barbara Veirs Telephone # : 424-4960 STREETS NUMBER 1050 W. Montgomery Avenue CITY. TOWN STATE , Zip code Rockville —VICINITY OF Maryland 0LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Liber # : 1807 COURTHOUSE. Folio # : 31 REGISTRY OF DEEDS.ETC Mont£,omery county Courthouse STREETS NUMBER

CITY. TOWN STATE Rockville Maryland Q REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS

TITLE MNCPPC Inventory of Historical Sites DATE 1976 —FEDERAL X-STATE XCOUNTY —LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Park Historian's Office • CITY. TOWN STATE Derwood Maryland 20855 Q DESCRIPTION M26-5

CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE X_EXCELLENT —DETERIORATED —UNALTERED X-ORIGINAL SITE _600D —RUINS X-ALTERED —MOVED DATE- —FAIR —UNEXPOSED

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE This log and frame house sits at the end of a dirt road near Watts Branch Creek, facing northeast. Built in two sections, the northwest section is log, three bays across and one-and-a-half stories in height. The southeast section is frame and is three bays across and two-and-a-half stories in height. The frame section is irregularly shaped and projects forward from the log house. The log house is built on fieldstone foundations. The exposed log walls have V-notched corners with concrete chinking which has been painted beige. Three fieldstone steps lead up to the glass and wooden paneled northeast (front) door. It is square and has six-over-six double hung « windows flanked by black wooden louvered shutters. There is a shed-roofed dormer window on both the northeast and southwest elevations. Each has three six-light casement windows. At the northeast gable end there are two six-over-six double hung windows flanking the chimney. The log house has a gable roof covered by asbestos shingles. At the northeast elevation there is a massive exterior fieldstone base and a brick chimney stack. A modern lean-to addition to the log house on the northwest elevation also has a massive exterior brick chimney. This frame lean-to addition was built on brick foundations and has a shed roof. The frame section of the house has beige beaded clapboarding. It has an irregular plan and is joined to the garage to the southeast elevation by a breezeway. The frame section of the house has two small southwest ^^ projecting pavilions. Throughout the frame section the six-over-six do^le hung windows are grouped in twos and threes. There is a hipped roof with asbestos covering and a brick interior chimney. The breezeway and garage have gable roof covered by asbestos shingles.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY SIGNIFICANCE M: 26-5

PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE - CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC —ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC —COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — RELIGION ^1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC —CONSERVATION —LAW —SCIENCE — 1500 1599 AGRICULTURE —ECONOMICS — LITERATURE —SCULPTURE — 1600-1699 X ARCHITECTURE —EDUCATION MILITARY —SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _Xl 700-1799 —ART —ENGINEERING —MUSIC —THEATER — 1800 1899 —COMMERCE —EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT —PHILOSOPHY —TRANSPORTATION — 1900- —COMMUNICATIONS X.INDUSTRY —POLITICS/GOVERNMENT X_OTHER ISPECIFYI —INVENTION Local History

SPECIFIC DATES TvqOs BUILDER/ARCHITECT unknown STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE This log dwelling is a fine example of an early cabin which grew to meet the needs of the families who lived there, and to furnish nearby living quarters for those who operated the mill. By the time of the American Revolution, Dr. Thomas Sprigg Wootton was the owner of this land. Wootton is known as the father of Montgomery Count} for it was he who had played a major role in the local events leading up to the separation from England, and introduced the successful resolution on August 31J 1776 to divide Frederick County into three parts — Washing ton, Frederick, and Montgomery counties. Wootton deeded 383 acres of "Exchange and New Exchange Enlarged" to his son Richard in 1778,1 and it was probably Richard who had the log dwelling constructed on his property two miles outside "Montgomery Courtp liouse". Richard in 1803 sold 400 acres to his daughter Elizabeth Beall, Aho conveyed it ten years later to Henry Strause and Otho H. Williams.3 u"he mill was operating before 1821, as the grist and saw mill of the late Henry Strause was advertised for sale in the March 8 Baltimore Advertiser of that year. The property was again offered for sale in 1844 — 431 acres "lying about a mile and a quarter from the town of Rockville, with a DWELLING HOUSE and GRIST MILL thereon."4 In 1848, Turner and Olivia C. Wootton separated the ownership of the mill from that of the miller's house by selling 229 acres and the dwelling to Chandler Keys. The Woottons reserved the right of way into the family burial ground and also the privileges of the "stream which was formerly used in operating the Mill of Strause and Williams, and which was sub sequently the Mill of John Braddock, and which is now conducted into the Mill race of said Wootton, through the aforesaid described land and pre mises for the benefit of the Mill of said Wootton, with full power to improve and repair the same."5 The saw and grist mill which appears on the I865 Martinet and Bond map of Montgomery County was a local or custom mill. It was powered by an overshot wheel, in which the weight of water conducted through the race to the top of the wheel caused it to turn. This small mill ground the Woottons grain and, upon the payment of a toll, that of their neighbors. The mill and the cabin were leased to the miller and his family. In the 1850 Census, Benjamin Sparrow, age 41, born in Maryland, lived here with his large family, and operated the mill. Olivia C. Wootton and her daughters Martha and Ella sold the mill and 12 acres for $2400 to John ^fe. Robertson, in 1868,° but they continued to live nearby. The property ^^as sold at public auction in 1881 to William T. Grimes, who resold it two CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY (continued on Attachment Sheet A) M:26-5 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Braunberg, Robert, "Rockville Mills", City of Rockville newsletter, June 18, 1975. Land and Will Records of Montgomery County, Md. Lee Ann Smith, "A Quest for the Age and History of the Log Mill House Rockville, Maryland", 1972 CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY ^GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 5-635 acres plus rights of way

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FORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE Candy Reed Michael Dwver/Sharon Green Arch. Descriptrion ORGANIZATION DATE Sugarloaf Regional Trails STREET 8. NUMBER TELEPHONE JBoz_&7 9?6-451Q CITY OR TOWN STATE Dickerson

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 19 74 Supplement. The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: SUGARLOAF REGIONAL TRAILS Box 87, Stronghold Dickerson, Md. 20753 (301) 926-4510

PS- 1 108 Attachment Sheet A M: 26/5 Magi # Watts Branch Miller's House

ars later to Salathiel T. Mullican.' Mullican operated the mill himself, Celling the 12 acre property in 1897 to Frlsby Price.5 Price sold it to Lindsay R. Hickerson in 1899,9 who in turn sold it to Kate 0. Holmes in I905.ID William H. Holmes was the curator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1879 to 1920. He was also an artist of some note, and some of his work as well as photographs of the cabin taken during his residence are available in the Pine Arts Collection of the Smithsonian. Holmes named the log house "Holmescroft". Charles Veirs purchased the property in I919,11 about the time that the mill ceased operation. The present owners purchased the house in 1953.

FOOTNOTES: 1 Land Records of Montgomery County, Md., A112 (March 13, 1778) 2 Ibid., K465 (April 27, 1803). 3 4 Ibid., R36 (December 28, I813J. 5 Maryland Journal. July 31, 1844. 6 Land Records, op. cit., STS3/472 (June 6, 1848). 7 Ibid., EBP 6/47 (January 11, I869). 8 Ibid., EBP 28/289 (March 26, 1883). 9 Ibid., JA 60/489 (December 14, 1897). Ibid., TD 12/359 (December 30, 1899). Ibid., 184/84 (September 29, 1905). • Ibid., 274/471 (January 20, 1919). Maryland Journal (Rockville) - July 31, 1844 M #26-5 MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST WORKSHEET NOMINATION FORM for the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE

!. NAME COMMON: Watts Branch Miller's House AND/OR HISTORIC: (Veirs log cabin) 2. LOCATION STREET ANDNUMBER: 1050 W. Montgomery Ave. CITY OR TOWN: Rockville

Maryland Montgomery 3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check Ona) TO THE PUBLIC

• Dittrict |S Building Q Public Public Acquisition: • Occupied Yes: • Restricted • Site Q Structure S3 Privote Q In Process I I Unoccupied • Unrestricted • Object • Both ] Being Considered • Preservotion work In progress m NO

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l~l Agricultural I 1 Government D Pork t I Transportation I 1 Comments 3 Commercial • Industrial JBi Privot* Residence • Other (Sp+clty) I i Educational Q Military ( 1 Religious II Entertainment { I Museum Q Scientific f4. OWNER OP PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME* A.B. Veirs STREET ANO NUMBER: 1050 W. Montgomery Ave, CITV OR TOWN: Rockville Maryland [S. LOCATION OF LESAL DESCRiPTION lOURTHOUSE, REGISTRY or DEEDS. ETC: Montgomery County Courthouse STREET ANO NUMBER:

CITY OR TOWf- Rockville Maryland • [Title Reference of Current Deed (Book & Pg. #); \$. REPRESENTATION tN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY:

DATE OF SURVEY: • Federal Q State • County fjj Locol DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS:

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CITY OR TOWN: M: 26-5 7. DESCRIPTION (Check On»; E. ilUnt • Good r] F« • D^t.riorat.d Q Ruin, • CONDITION n (Check One) (Check One) Alt.r.d • Unclt«r.d Q Mov«d ^ Original Si DESCRIBE THE PRESENT A -4 D ORIGINAL (II knovm) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The house is built in several parts, the earliest section being a one-story log cabin at the north end. The log walls are exposed and there is a large, external, stone chimney on the north end. There are three bays on the main (east) facade, and the door is in the center bay. Windows are six-over-six, double-hung, and there are painted boards nailed over the window heads.

The second part of the house is a late nineteenth- century, frame building of two stories. It is basically an L-shaped farmhouse that was remodeled by the Alvin Veirs family during the mid-twentieth century. CO m m

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11. FORM PREPAREO BY NAME AND TITLE!: Michael F. Dwyer, Senior Park Historian ORGANI ZATION DATE M-NCPPC 5/7/75 STREET AND NUMBER: 8787 Georqia Ave. CITY OR TOWN: STATE Silver Spring Maryland 'Vi.\ —JState Liaison Officer Review: (Office Use Only) Significance of this property is: National Q State • Local •

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VOLUME 21, NO. 13 NEWSLETTE'AN INFORMED CITIZEN IS A BETTER CITIZEN"R JUNE 18, 1975 MAYOR AND COUNCIL CITY CONCERN OVER HOLD THE LINE S0UTHLAWN INCINERATOR ON THE CITY BUDGET SITE USE The Mayor and Council have costs expected because of the import Mayor William Hanna has written processing refuse opens July 1977. adopted a fiscal year 1976 (July 1, tariff. These were not anticipated a letter on behalf of the Mayor and The Mayor's letter suggested that it 1975 - June 30, 1976) budget which when the Manager submitted the Council to the Members of the be stated in the Ten Year Solid Waste will keep the City's real property tax budget in late April. An employee County Council requesting that the Plan that the Southlawn Incinerator at last year's level of $1.24 per $100 wage increase of 2% plus a payment County plans to use the Southlawn site will operate as a temporary of assessed valuation. This was done of $300 per employee to be paid in Incinerator site as a refuse transfer transfer station unitl the CPF opens, despite many inflationary cost two parts, was incorporated from station be only temporary. The City is but in no event any later than increases and while maintaining most funds providing this discretion in the not pleased with the use of this site as December 1977. The letter stated services at current levels. City Manager's proposed budget. In a transfer station since original that the City has often seen Working with the City Manager's total, expenses added during the County plans for the site were to temporary facilities somehow become proposed budget of $11,504,601, the budget deliberations were $159,191. convert it into a park once the permanent, and that the City is Council's approved a total budget of Budget reductions, which included incinerator was closed down. The looking forward to the recreational $11,547,822. Of this amount, additional staff cuts, recreation present plan is to use the site as a use which would serve the residential $7,780,515 is to be spent from the expenses (which will be offset by temporary transfer station only until area proposed for the Gude and General Fund revenues which are tax higher fees), and lower expenditures the Central Processing Facility for Mobley areas west of this site. and fee supported. for the interest on the City's recent Among changes made by the bond issue totalled $172,589. Mayor and Council were increases for In addition, the Mayor and Council police activities, right-of-way main approved initial expenditures for the ROCKVILLE MILLS tenance and other activities related to City's $1,137,000 Community Devel the Bicentennial. The following opment Block Grant which will be increases were made: $32,500 for concentrating expenditure in the workman's compensation insurance; neighborhoods of Rockcrest and and $36,000 for gasoline and utility Monroe Street-Lynfield in FY '76. STATEMENT OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF ROCKVILLE TO ITS CITIZENS AND EMPLOYEES The Mayor and Council of sum payment is being made to Rockville agreed at its meeting increase the purchasing power of the Monday evening to adopt a no tax employees. increase budget for the fiscal year Rockville presently provides a beginning July 1, 1975. The tax rate family health insurance program at which will be set officially on June 16 no cost to its employees. The City's will remain at $1.24 per $100 contribution is comparable or superi assessed valuation. This was accomp or to that provided by the federal, Mrs Wootton 's Mill. Photo courtesy of the Columbia Historical Society lished only by a careful review of the state and other nearby local City Manager's Proposed Budget, jurisdictions. Last year, the Union This article is another in a series of followed the establishment of trans and a general maintenance of present negotiated a contract with the City articles about Rockville's past portation networks, the locations of levels of service. which stipulated that the employer brought to you by the Rockville towns in early Maryland was often While the Mayor and Council was and the employee would share Bicentennial Commission. determined by the presence of carrying out its review of the City equally any future increased health This article was written by Robert suitable mill sites on creeks and Manager's Proposed Budget, the premium costs. The Union now Braunberg, who has been involved rivers. Aside from animals, wind and City Manager was engaged in demands that the City pay the entire locally in industrial archeology for a water were the only prime movers negotiations with Local #1453 of the amount. number of years. The Montgomery available to the colonists. Milled American Federation of State, The task of being attentive to the County Historical Society quarterly, grains were vital to the diet, and County and Municipal Employees, needs and capabilities of City THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY transportation was poor at best until AFL-CIO, which represents the residents while at the same time STORY, will soon carry a more well into the 19th century. The grains City's blue collor employees. Al acting in fairness to the City's extensive discussion of this topic by grown locally had to be milled locally. though the City Manager negotiated employees has been extremely Mr. Braunberg. He gratefully ac Within a six-mile radius of the for over five weeks with the difficult. In taking preliminary knowledges the assistance of Michael Courthouse in Rockville, there are representatives of Local #1453, the actions towards the adoption of the F. Dwyer (Maryland-National Capital recorded the sites of eleven grist negotiations have not resulted in an forthcoming Budget, the Mayor and Park and Planning Commission), mills. Here, on the Piedmont, water agreement and the parties unfortu Council has continued the tax rate at John W. McGrain (Molinography of mills were the rule. On Maryland's nately are presently at an impasse. its present level and, in this way, is Maryland), Robert Truax (Colombia Costal Plain, where there are no Negotiations with the Local #1453 seeking to minimize additional Historical Society), and the Mont waterfalls, wind mills were con have centered around two main financial burdens on its residents. By gomery County Historical Society structed. economic issues: wages and health the same token, the Mayor and library. Of the eleven mills mentioned only insurance. Council has attempted to meet The local mill was vital to two were operated on the undershot The Mayor and Council has increased needs of its employees American agrarian life in the 17th, principle. In undershot operations, included funds in the FY '76 Budget while at the same time recognizing 18th, and early 19th centuries. Before the flow of the stream under the to provide a 2% across the board that economic conditions in the the revolution, there were virtually wheel caused it to turn. One such salary adjustment plus a lump sum United States today require that both no large industrial centers in mill, Bowie's Mill, the mill nearest payment of $300 per employee. For citizens and city employees share the America. Even iron was made locally the head waters of Rock Creek, was an employee with current salary of burdens of the dual problems of in small furnaces located anywhere located where Bowie's Mill Road $10,000, this represents a wage inflation and recession. that the raw materials could be package increase of $500. The lump obtained. Just as settlement patterns (Cont. on page 2) 1 ROCKVILLE MILLS SCHUTTLER - NEW COMMUNITY RESOURCES HEAD (Cont. from page 1) crosses the creek, and was probably area. worked for the Rouse Company in planning and developing concepts built by Jeffrey Magruder before The second class of mills is and programs for the basis institu 1786. The other undershot mill wheel represented by the Rockville mill we tions and government services of was located in the area now flooded hear of most frequently, the Columbia, Maryland. by Lake Frank and was built by merchant mill built by Samuel Clark Joseph Elgar before 1772. Elgar and Veirs soon after he purchased the Before that, developing successful his brothers, originally from Philadel property in 1838. The mill, along with community schools through intensive phia, constructed several mills on the Veirs house, Meadow Hall, which citizen participation was his respon their Milton Farm and in the overlooked the creek, was a landmark sibility in the U.S. Office of neighboring area. Elgar probably in the area. Merchant millers were in Education. There he was part of the built the Muncaster Mill, for the business full time and located team that developed and tested what example, about 1820 and gave it a 15 their operations on streams that is known as the "Charrette" process foot diameter overshot wheel. Most could be counted upon to turn their in over 35 cities during the period of 19th century mills were powered by wheels most of the year. They did the urban riots. Later he formed a overshot wheels, in which the weight custom milling, and they also bought private consulting practice and of water conducted through the race grain from local growers and sold adopted the process for urban to the top of the wheel caused it to flour. The Rockville Flour Millilng planning, developing downtown turn with about three times the Company, as advertised in 1880, sold malls, recreation, health and educa efficiency of an undershot wheel. flour under the brand name of Veirs City Manager Larry Blick is happy tion facilities and neighborhood The two mills closest to Rockville Family and Bouquet. The 1880 census to announce the appointment of planning. are good examples of the two listed Veirs and Bro. Mill as worth Barry Schuttler as the Project This week Barry is in England different types of mill that were $230,000, with 14 employees and a Manager for Community Develop advising Britain's largest industry, operated. Mrs. Wootton's saw and 100 bushel per day capacity. The mill ment and Community Resources for International Chemicals Inc., and the grist mill was a local or custom mill. was driven by an overshot wheel nine the City of Rockville. Mr. Schuttler British government on management Custom mills were small. They feet broad which rated at 30 began employment with the City techniques involving citizen parti ground the owner's grain and, upon horsepower. June 9. His job includes directing the cipation. the payment of a toll, that of his After the coming of the railroad in Community Resources Department His Far Eastern experience came neighbors. Typically such mills had 1873, the improved transportation which includes Senior Citizen Ser with the job of directing $7 million, but one run of stones and were opportunities made the local mills vices, Youth Services, Human 36,000 ton distribution programs of sometimes located on streams of such less of a necessity. Some millers Rights, and Special Community food, medicine, clothing, and equip trifling flow that one wonders how improved their efficiency by convert Services, as well as coordinating the ment in Taiwan and Korea to 3 they could induce any sort of wheel to ing their water powers to turbines; Community Development Block million refugees, 1400 institutions, turn. One answer was that the miller others such as Bowie's went to steam Grant program and carrying out the and 125 construction projects utiliz saved water behind his dam at night power. Few were able to effectively Citizen Participation aspects of that ing 10,000 distributors in 14 language to have enough to run the mill during meet the competition of large program. groups. the day. In addition to the single run regional milling centers far into the Mr. Schuttler brings to the City an Special interests include photo of stones, such a mill would have an 20th century. extensive background in planning journalism. As a Far Eastern up-and-down saw out back, and The other mills within a six mile and managing community services correspondent, he filed 15,000 photos operation would be seasonable at radius of Rockville were Glenwood on for businesses, private institutions, on 20 countries with features in Time, best. Wootton's Mill may have been Muddy Branch at Turkey Foot Road, and government agencies throughout Newsweek, the New York Times and built as early as the 1770s - there is a Belt's Old mill at the mouth of Watts the U.S. and the Far East. He has others. somewhat cryptic reference to a mill Branch, Bell's Mill at Seven Locks that might be this one in a document Road at Democracy Boulevard (on dated 1779. Wootton's Mill is Cabin John Creek), Magruder's Folly ATTENTION described in the (Rockville) Maryland on Cabin John Creek at River Road, Journal of July 31, 1844, as to be Horner's on Rock Creek at. Avery TEENS offered for auction on September 27 Road, Muncaster's on Rock Creek at of that year. It is shown on Martenet Muncaster Mill Road, McOrmic's Teen Boat Ride on the Potomac. round-trip transportation to Ocean and Bond's map of 1865 as located on grist mill on Piney Branch near Glen Wednesday, July 2nd. Buses leave City. Enjoy a fun-filled trip to Ocean Watts Branch a few hundred yards Road, and two ancient (and to date Richard Montgomery High School City for Rockville teens, exclusively. downstream from the present Route unlocated) sites of Elgar mills on parking lot 6:30 p.m. Ride from Swim, walk along the boardwalk, 28. The accompanying photograph (c. Rock Creek between Horner's and 8:00-11:00 p.m. Cost only $5.00. shopping, good eating and much, 1930) from the collection of the Muncaster's mills. Adult supervision. This ride is to give much more. For those adventurous Columbia Historical Society shows NEXT ISSUE: July 4, Centennial our city youth a scenic cruise on the folks, Deep Sea Fishing will be what we have come to expect as and Bicentennial. luxury charter ship Wilson Liner. The provided for an additional $8.00*, typical of such mills throughout this boat is reserved exclusively for the 1:00-4:00 p.m. on the Atlantic Ocean. teens from the City of Rockville. Bring home a fresh fish for the Entertainment will be privided by a family. Registration a must. Deadline famous live D.J. Dance, laugh and July 1st. Only 70 seats available. SUMMER EMPLOYMENT have a good time on a cool ride on the * (payable at fishing pier at Ocean Potomac. Sign up now. Only 80 seats City). available. Registration deadline June Send check payable to: RENT-A-KID 23. "City of Rockville" Trip of Ocean City. Sunday, July c/o Teen Trips 13th. Buses leave Richard Mont Recreation Services Building The RENT-A-KID business is still available as of this writing. Many gomery High School parking lot 6:00 850 Avery Road booming. Residents who phone in babysitting jobs are open as of now. a.m.; return 9:00 p.m. Adult Rockville, Md. 20851 jobs are receiving referrals of • Fallsmead - Babysitting for supervision. Cost $7.00, includes interested teenagers almost immedi infant. Pay is negotiable. ately after calling. • College Gardens - Housecleaning If you are a City resident or on Saturdays. Pay is negotiable. business person, and you wish to • Twinbrook - Grass cutting on a have any type of job performed on a regular basis. $5.00* per job. A BICENTENNIAL TIDBIT full or . part-time basis by an • College Gardens - Mother's interested teenager, please call the Helper for the summer - 5 days a Youth Services Division at 424-8000 week, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Care for 18 ext. 270. Your job will be referred to month old. Pay is negotiable. Mrs. Mayme Simpkins holds all interested teens who will also be (Please note: The Youth Services one end of the American Flag calling Youth Services. When your Division and the City of Rockville she hand crocheted in honor of job is filled, call Youth Services and have no responsibility for the manner the Bicentennial. Holding the and calls from teenagers will no in which any job is performed. To other end is Carolyn Twohig, longer be referred to you. prevent any misunderstanding, the staff to the Rockville Bicen If you are between 13 and 18 years way in which the job should be tennial Commission. old, and you would like a RENT-A- performed, and the amount to be KID job referral, call Youth Services paid for the job should be thoroughly at the number listed above. discussed between the youth and, the Remember, RENT-A-KID works resident or business before any work because you use it! is begun.) Below is a listing of jobs still At1-4Pnent Sheet C M: 26/5 Watts Branch Miller's House MAGI#

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M: 26-5 Watts Branch Miller's House, Viers Log Cabin 8 Camden Court (formerly 1050 W. Montgomery Ave.) Rockville quad Tax Map GR122, Block A, Lot 12 M: 26-5 Watts Branch Miller House 8 Camden Court Rockville, MD USGS Rockville Quad