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Scenic Mabry Mill reopens on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Image shows scenic Mabry Mills
Image courtesy of the National Park Service
Mabry Mills in Meadows of Dan, Va.

An iconic spot on the Blue Ridge Parkway has reopened after restoration work.

Mabry Mill is in Meadows of Dan, Va., not too far from the North Carolina line. The mill was once used for grinding corn and sawing lumber. More recently, it’s been a parkway stop for music and dancing.

The newly restored mill is back open following a restoration that included adding a new roof with white oak shakes.

Traditional Appalachian folk demonstrations, including blacksmithing and weaving, are available throughout the week. Music is performed every first and third Sunday.

The National Park Service has also reopened about four miles of the Parkway in the Bamboo Gap area near Boone following damage from Helene.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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