700 Union Forge Church Road
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Last updated on April 2, 2024
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Directions from Mount Jackson Historic Colored Cemetery to site 18:
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The Lantz Mill was built in the early 1800s. It was later sold to George Lantz whose family ran the mill for 72 years. Jacob Lantz, George Lantz’s son, owned the mill and was a slave owner. There are enslaved individual burials located on the property side of the road in the area between the street poles. The property today is private. Between 1740 and 1970, Lantz Mills, Virginia was home to many families with a mix of hearing and deaf parents and at least one or more deaf siblings. Lantz Mill descendant and author, deaf historian, Kathleen Brockway illuminates this history. A traveling exhibit of her work is traveling the state. It is believed several deaf infants are buried in the cemetery we have noted here which is primarily thought to be a pre-Civil War burial ground for enslaved African Americans.
References
William Ward Nooter, “Lantz Mill, VA Oral History of Earle JosephDidawick, April 23, 2022, conducted by Elissa Blake Free and William Ward Nooter,” interview by Elissa Blake Free, April 2022, transcription.
Juanita Lantz Didawick and Ann Cottrell Free, “Juanita Lantz Didawick and Ann Cottrell Free’s conversation about the Lantz Mill area done in 1993,” 1993, transcription.
William Ward Nooter, “Lantz Mill, VA Oral History of Earle JosephDidawick, April 23, 2022, conducted by Elissa Blake Free and William Ward Nooter,” interview by Elissa Blake Free, April 2022, transcription.
Juanita Lantz Didawick and Ann Cottrell Free, “Juanita Lantz Didawick and Ann Cottrell Free’s conversation about the Lantz Mill area done in 1993,” 1993, transcription.