Cook's Mill

{{short description|Historic building in West Virginia, US}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Cook's Mill | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Cook's Mill 2022a.jpg | caption = Cook's Mill in 2022. The mill building ''(left)'' dates from 1857, while the forge building ''(right)'' was constructed in the late 1980s. | location = County Route 2, near Greenville, West Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|37|32|42|N|80|41|14|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = West Virginia#USA | built = 1857 | architect = Humphries, James | added = February 6, 1989 | area = {{convert|2|acre}} | refnum = 88001857<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

'''Cook's Mill''', also known as The Old Mill and The Greenville Mill, is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district located near Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia, United States. The district includes one contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main mill building was built in 1857 on the original stone foundation and site of an earlier mill built in approximately 1796. It is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story, plus basement, hand-hewn post-and-beam building, with massive timbers pegged at their mortise and tenon joints. The district also includes the dam, mill pond, tail race and stream.<ref name="dhr">{{cite web|url=https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cooks-mill.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Cook's Mill|date=May 1988|access-date=2011-08-18 |author=James P. Wells|publisher=State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation}}</ref>

The site also contains several noncontributing structures, including a log house dating from about 1843 that was moved to the site from nearby War Ridge in 1990, and a forge building constructed in the late 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=General Information |url=http://www.cooksoldmill.com/text/general.html |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Cook's Old Mill}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.<ref name="nris"/>

This is near the original site of Cook's Station (Fort) built by Valentine Cook in the early 1770s. This was the site of the first marriage in that county, of Phillip Hamman and Christina Cook in 1780. He being known as Savior Of The Greenbrier for his run, along with John Pryor, to warn the Greenbrier settlements in 1778 of an impending Indian attack.

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thumb|left|Rear of the mill thumb|left|Log cabin dating from about 1843, which was moved to the site in 1990

Category:Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Category:Industrial buildings completed in 1857 Category:Buildings and structures in Monroe County, West Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, West Virginia Category:Historic districts in Monroe County, West Virginia Category:Sawmills in the United States Category:1857 establishments in Virginia