Newport Mills

Sign commemorating Josiah Henson, a celebrated Evangelist and model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, who received his Christian baptism here while still a slave on the nearby Riley Plantation.

Material

metal

Inscription

Originally built in 1774 by Thomas Johns, a colonel during the American Revolution, and Thomas Richardson, a prominent Georgetown merchant, large flour mills continued to exist on this site along Rock Creek until the 1870s. Richardson, appointed by Genera

• 6.1 mi off the George Washington Memorial ParkwayNational
• 5.4 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
• 7.1 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
• 9.8 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway

Local time (America/New_York).

39.03305, -77.08400

Elevation 72 m (modelled from terrain)

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