PLATE FROM BOYD'S WASHINGTON DIRECTORY OF 1886, FACING PAGE 452 - Bomford's Mill, Potomac & Grace Streets, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

ID: 2450 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
~ Date: Documentation compiled after 1933

This file appears in: Bomford Mill (Pioneer Flour Mills): The Bomford Mill was home to the milling business established by Col. George Bomford.

This is the only old mill remaining in Georgetown, and is representative of an important local industry. It was originally built by col. George Bonford, merchant and ordnance expert.

This file appears in: Bomford Mill (Pioneer Flour Mills): The Bomford Mill was home to the milling business established by Col. George Bomford.

Bomford Mill (Pioneer Flour Mills): The Bomford Mill was home to the milling business established by Col. George Bomford.

By The DC Historic Sites team

George Bomford was an Army ordnance expert and the owner of the mansion Kalorama. In 1845, he constructed a cotton factory on the site of an 1832 flour mill, which had burned down the previous year.…