Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Business Records of the Hogshead-Smiley Mill, Accession #38-22, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The collection was purchased from Mrs. Richard Hogshead, Middlebrook, Virginia, 1 January 1935.

Alternative Form Available

Account book of Smiley's Mill, 1807-1827 and Account Ledger of "T. M. Smiley's Mill," 1891-1901 are also available on microfilm M-2405.

Scope and Content

The Hogshead-Smiley Mill Records consist of 37 items, ca. 1807-1901, and seven ledgers, 1846-1912. The papers are chiefly deeds for land around the mill, on Moffats Creek in Augusta County, Virginia. Also included is an unbound account book of Smiley's Mill, ca. 1807-1827. The ledgers consist of grist mill accounts kept by John R. Robinson, E.A. Lacy, and others, millers for William Smiley.