Park. And rock creek this is one of the last vestiges of the rural past of washington, of itsll, the only one tight left. It was part of a way of life of arming and milling that happened in the early 1800s. The mill the owner of the fromwas a former quaker. Ennsylvania named isaac peirce he came to the Washington Area in the late 1790s and not a lot of land. Ultimately 160 acres along Rock Creek Park. There was an old mill here that he bought, and he built this mill in about 1820. A hold farm stand here farmstead here. There was a building that may barn,een a distillery, a an entire farm area here. The middle, as i said, was built in 1820 and stayed in operation through almost the entire 19th century. Was subsumed into Rock Creek Park in 1890 when Rock Creek Park was founded, and he kept operating for seven more in 1897d finally ended when the main shaft of the mill wheel broke, and that was the end of milling operations forever. Back in the early 19th century, this was rural land out