Built about 1910 by Edwin B. Mabry, a jack-of-all-trades who had been a chairmaker, a miner, a coal company blacksmith, and a farmer, this mill was operated by him and his wife, Mintoria Lizzie Mabry, until 1936, grinding corn and sawing lumber for their Meadows of Dan neighbors. In 1945, the National Park Service restored and landscaped the mill. Today, it is the most photographed feature on the Blue Ridge Parkway.