Jones Mill Pond (Virginia)
August 7th, 2008 by leafworksJones Mill Pond
This old mill town and mill dam (now covered by the Colonial parkway) show on Civil War maps, and may have existed in Colonial times.
A Union Advance
On May 5, 1862, Lt. George A Custer (who is 1876 made hist “Last Stand” on the Little Bighorn River in Montana) led a detachment along the roadway here over “Cub Dam Creek” to occupy the Confederate works on the bluff immediately beyond. This manuever in the Battle of Williamsburg came as the Union Army advanced toward Richmond in the Peninsular Campaign.
