Tacketts Mill, Virginia

On February 27, 1837, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act stating that a separate polling station will be opened "at a storehouse, near the mill called Tackett's."

In 1855–56 the Virginia General Assembly recognized Tacketts Mill as a separate voting precinct within Stafford County.

John E. Tackett is listed in Virginia at War, 1862, by William C. Davis, James I. Robertson, as being one of 121 producers of woolen goods that could be used to clothe the Confederate Army.

According to The Fire Within: A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin, by Kerry Trask, Wisconsin elements of the "Iron Brigade" of the Army of the Potomac arrived at Tacketts Mill on November 18, 1862, expecting to go into winter quarters, but were soon ordered south in the attack on Fredericksburg the following month, December 1862.

Union forces moved up and down the Potomac River to the east of Tacketts Mill and along the Warrenton Road to the south, during campaigns in the area.

In April, 1864, a number of dispatches between Major General Philip Sheridan, Commander of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and Brigadier General Gregg, Commander of the Second US Cavalry Division in Warrenton, VA, ordered that US Cavalry scouts be sent to "the vicinity of Grove Church, United States Ford, Stafford Courthouse and Tackett's Mill" to deal with "numerous rebel scouts," and that, "Major General Meade is exceedingly anxious to have them driven from the country, killed, or captured, and directs the officer in command to be very vigilant, and to collect as much information as possible of the enemy."

According to his story he crossed the Rappahannock River from Culpeper, VA, and met up with a number of other Confederate scouts at Tackett's Mill.

In the December, 1892, edition of the periodical, "Farm Journal", E. L. S. of Tacketts Mill wrote in to ask a question about raising chickens.

It is highly likely that this steel water wheel is the same one donated by the Emerts to the Tacketts Mill shopping center in Woodbridge, (which was subsequently never used) and is pictured on page 67 of "Stafford County, Then & Now", by Anita L. Dodd and M. Amanda Lee.

In 1914, L. A. Skinner is listed by the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth as the Constable of Tacketts Mill in the Rock Hill Magistrate.