Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.

E. H. DICKSON - proprietor of the "Chesapeake Mills," which began 
operations April 4, 1882. The mill is a three-story building, 
45 x 48 feet, engine house 20 x 30 feet, tublar boiler four feet 
in diameter, 14 feet in length; 40-horse power, side-valve engine, 
made by Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, Indiana. The mill contains 
four run of buhrs, two for wheat, one for middlings, one for corn, 
and has all the modern machinery for milling. The cost of building 
and machinery was $9,000. E. H. DICKSON, proprietor; William FOX, 
head miller; W. E. SHANKLIN, engineer, and Alfred KING, assistant 
miller. The proprietor's post office address is Ronceverte, 
Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @trellis.net>, 1999.