Timeline for North River Mills

1747 James Caudy settles on the Cacapon River

1750 George Washington surveys land for Joseph Edwards, James Caudy, Henry

Enoch, and Thomas Parker; John Hiett, Jr. settles briefly in area

in early 1750s; Hiett's Run takes its name from him

1751 George Washington surveys for George Ashbrook, George & William Horner

1753 Thomas Parker is granted 237 acres on North River adjacant Hiett's Run

1754 Hampshire County created

1755 Gen. Braddock passes through Hampshire Co. near Forks of Capon;

John Maury surveys 131 acres for James Gibbons

1756 The Battle of Great Cacapon; Capt. Joshua Lewis routes band of Indians

near N.R.M.; James Gibbons' daughter, Sarah, taken captive by Indians

as was Mrs. George Horner; Sarah returned about six years later with

a half-breed son

1763 John Williams returns after French and Indian War to reclaim his land from

his neighbors, the Lockharts and Parkers

1766 Dr. James Craik receives grant for land with a spring east of N.R.M.; James

and Evan Hiett both receive land grants east of N.R.M.

1770 George Washington visits Samuel Pritchard and Henry Enoch and Romney

1771 Dr. James Craik receives grant for the James Gibbons' 131 acres

1776 Jonathan Hiett receives grant for 154 acres on Hiett's Run

1788 Henry Baker receives land grant east of N.R.M.

1789 Rees Prichard receives grant for land around N.R.M. containing Kump cabin

1796 Heirs of Thomas Parker and Robert Pritchard petitioned court to file a deed

to replace one destroyed by fire whereby Thomas Parker had sold his

land to Robert Pritchard around 1775

1802 William Moreland bought land from Pritchard (Log Cabin)

1808 Probable date of Kump Log Cabin (built by Moreland); John B. Miller born

1812 Probable date of Miller House (oldest part)

1817 Susan Short and George S. Williams born

1821 Benjamin Loy born

1823 Martha Loy born; N.R.M. Post Office opens

1826 William Daugherety postmaster; William Miller dies

1829 Post Office closed Aug.-Sep.; Samuel Heiskell appointed Postmaster

1830 William Smaltz born

1833 Samuel Kercheval publishes "A History of the Valley of Virginia"

1835 School House built on Sandy Ridge

1837 Jacob Kump & Julia Ann Milslagle married; Eliza J. Chilcott born

1842 Caroline Smalt born

1843 John B. Milller appointed Postmaster

1845 A.C. Loy born

1846 Margaret Hiett McDonald dies1848 Maj. George Deaver marries Lucinda

Hiett; William F(?) Kump born

1849 Jonathan H. Loy born; Henry Kump and Benjamin Wills die

1851 Christopher Heiskell dies

1855 Benjamin F. Loy born

1856 Joseph Short born; George Williams & Benjamin McDonald, II die

1863 Benjamin F. & Jonathan H. Loy die

1864 Skirmish in N.R.M.; William Kump joins the Union

1866 Minnie Smaltz born

1868 Henry Smaltz born; William Loy dies

1869 Laura Virginia Smaltz born

1870 Eliza Mendenhall dies

1872 Amos Chilcott & Emma Augusta Smaltz born

1875 George Deaver, veteran of War of 1812 drowns

1879 Dora E. Eaton born; William Miller appointed Postmaster

1886 John B. Miller dies

1892 Susan Short dies

1893 William Miller deeds land for Methodist Church

1894 Joseph Short dies; Charles Love Miller born

1895 Charles Love Miller born; P.O. changes name

1896 Martha A. Loy dies

1897 Laura Virginai Smaltz dies

1898 Benjamin Loy dies; Wilma McDonald born

1899 Emma Augusta, Minnie Smaltz die; Charley L. Harmison born

1900 Dora Eaton & Annie Miller married

1903 Charley & Lennie McCauley married; Lillian Harmison born

1904 Caroline Smaltz dies

1906 Flash flood

1907 Virgil McCauley born

1908 Eliza J., Amos Chilcott die; Granville Moreland born

1909 William Smaltz dies

1914 A.C. Loy dies

1915 Charles Miller & Wilma McDonald married

1917 Golda Eaton born

1922 Charley & Lillian Harmison married

1930 Snapp Mill blows up

1933 North River Mills School closes

1936 Miller's Mill collapses under winter snow

1937 Henry Smaltz dies

1940 Granville Moreland & Golda Eaton married; Bob Ford buys farm

on Gibbons Run; Otis Baker & Audrey Sine married

1974 Goldie Eaton Moreland dies

1981 Electricity put in the Methodist Church at North River Mills

1983 Charles Love Miller dies

1991 Wilma McDonald Miller dies

1992 Audra Croston dies

1996 September 6, Flood ravages North River Mills

1997 January, Another smaller flood hits village

1997 The North River Mills Society for Antiquarian Arts

and the Diffusion of Knowledge is founded