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Cold Milk LbNA #39630

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 21, 2008
Location:
City:Broadway
County:Rockingham
State:Virginia
Boxes:1
Planted by:taterbug
Found by: Notta Sluggard
Last found:Feb 27, 2011
Status:FFFFF
Last edited:Apr 21, 2008
Adult Clues

What is this little town? Oh! It is famous for its theatres! ...Wait…that’s the place in New York City, not the one in northern Rockingham County. Now what is this road? Every town in the U.S. has one, probably. It is named for our easternmost state, except they spelled it incorrectly. Once out of town, it gets the name of that which equals 7x6 instead. On the left, there is a park. Its name is funny because the park looks like a yard on a hill… On the right is a little creek, named Linville. There is a feeling that one should go south on this Maine Street, away from Maine. Go ahead!
Now you are out of the town. Keep going south on 7x6. A bunch of small roads go off to where the sun sets. After a while, one is named for a church built by someone with the same last name as Abraham Breneman, the man who, in 1800, built the mill where the box is hidden. Breneman died, only 12 years later, of camp fever caught from soldiers. By the road sign is a big cream-colored sign that says “Breneman-Turner Mill.” This is where you should turn. Go down the road until you see a big brick building with a millwheel and gray braces on the side. There is a cream-colored sign like the one you saw at the beginning of the road. Turn on to the gravel road and park on the side.

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In Broadway (Virginia), go south on 42(Main Street)
Before you reach Harrisonburg, there is a road that goes off to the right (west) called Breneman Church Road, with a large cream sign. Turn down the road and continue until you see the building described above.
Park on the shoulder of the gravel driveway.

1) Once you have parked, go to the big, cream-colored sign. It is mounted on a hydraulic press from the mill.
2) Go to the side of the sign facing away from the gravel driveway, and notice the original plate that tells about the manufacturer, located above the sign.
3) Now look towards the mill and walk to the big apple tree on the left. It was probably planted by one of the early millers. Look at the dried fruit on the ground.
4) Look around and see the concrete wall at the end of the pipe away from the mill. This is where the water from the creek was diverted to turn the mill wheel. Go there, and see the metal grill in front of the pipe opening.
5) Go down the pipe for 11 sections and see the black box, where water flow was controlled with a ship’s wheel inside the mill.
6) Next move down beside the mill wheel. On the inside of one of the spokes, you can see the “Fitz Water Wheel Company” plaque. The wheel is over 75 years old. Step back, look up, and note the backwards “S”s on the wall.
7) Back up even farther and look at the braces and supports on the crumbling wall. The wall was about to collapse, and the Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage center raised enough funds just barely in time.
8) Continue to the next side of the mill and see the vertical row of doors on the wall. Bags of flour would have been lowered on the pulley to farm wagons waiting below.
9) Come around to the front of the mill, and step up on to the porch. Look at the beautiful old boxwoods on one side and observe the mud dauber nest on the wall. If you look in the window in the door, you can just barely glimpse the mill machinery and the hand-hewn posts. Still looking inside, notice the platform in the corner on the right. This is where the millstones are located. There are big burrstones from France and then a smaller set for buckwheat. The stones had to be sharpened with “picking hammers” so that the grain would be cut, not just mashed. See the thermometer to the right of the door, and the five-digit telephone number. Farther to your left, read the plaques that show the mill’s listing as a Virginia Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic places. Before you leave the porch, notice the scorched places on the right supporting post. In 1864, the troops of General Sheridan were about to burn the mill as they did every other mill in the area but the learned of a sickness in the family and had pity. However, they had to show that they tried to burn the mill, so they set fire to the post and then let the miller and his neighbors put it out immediately. Above your head as you go down the step, spot the horseshoe above you head. Touch it for luck!
10) Once you leave the porch, enter the big white wooden shed connected to the mill. Wander around and be fascinated by the equipment.
11) When you are done go to the supporting post in the middle of the room and stand with your back to the refrigerator, facing the hopper. Turn 90 degrees to your left and see the sizeable, formerly white appliance against the brick wall. Walk over to it. Note the 14 sizeable lids on the top, and then look at the door on the right with no handle. Observe the plate on it that says what model it is, and then open the door if you want. Now shut the door and open the one on the left. Good job finding our letterbox! Be sure to reseal everything before you leave.







Children's Clues

In Broadway, Virginia, go south on 42(Main Street)
Before you reach Harrisonburg, there is a road that goes off to the right (west) called Breneman Church Road, with a large cream sign. Turn down the road and continue until you see the building described above.
Park on the shoulder of the gravel driveway.


1) Start at the cream-colored sign. Look at the metal plates. Try and read them.
2) Look towards the mill and go to the biggest apple tree. This mill is the longest burr stone mill in operation until 1988, and the stones are from France. Abraham Breneman built it in 1800.
3) Make a circle around the tree and look around. When you see a large black water pipe go towards the concrete wall at the start of it
4) Face the mill and step down to the grass to the right of the pipe. Be careful not to fall.
5) Walk eleven pipe sections and you will find yourself by a big concrete block. This is where the water flow was regulated from the inside by a “Ships Wheel” You may be very tempted to climb the ladder on it but don’t because it might fall and you would get a boo boo
6) Find the big water wheel and stand in front of it. The wheel is over 55-years-old. On the inside of the spoke there is a Fitz water wheel plaque, see if you can find it.
7) Back up a little bit and try to find a backwards “S” on the wall above the wheel.
8) Back up a little more and notice that the entire brick wall has been reinforced by steel beams
9) Continue around the mill and look up at the three doors in which mill workers would lower bags of flour and other goods into trucks. Also, look at the other two backwards “S”
10) Come around to the front of the mill and jump up onto the porch. Go to the door and see if you can look in. If you can’t, I am sure your mommy or daddy will help you. Don’t lean on the windows because they might shatter.
11) Look at the right doorframe near the top and see the old time thermometer. Notice the phone number and see if you can tell what is wrong.
12) Face the door and turn to your left. You will see a bench. Go sit on it. Look at the beam holding the ceiling up on the right. Notice the ceiling was burnt in 1864 by Sheridan’s troops.
13) Come back to the door and face exactly opposite. Go forward and try to touch the horseshoe on the beam for good luck finding our letterbox.
14) Go to the brick wall on the left and follow it until you come to very large double doors. Go in them.
15) Explore around a little bit. Watch out on the floor for groundhog holes though.
16) Once you are finished look around for a white refrigerator in the middle of the room. When you are there, face the large rusty metal hopper.
17) Turn exactly 90 degrees to your left. You should see a large rectangular metal box. Step towards it.
18) Look inside the door on the right with no latch. This is where they stored milk. Look on the top of the fridge and try to figure out the purpose of the 14 metal lids.
19) Now look at the left door with a handle. Open it.
20) Be sure to put the lid back on the box :-)