The following article about the Staats Mill was written by Corinne Staats Fisher. It includes information about the community, families and the history of the bridge now located at Cedar Lakes.

History of Staats/Statts Mills

Colonel Daniel Frost

Daniel Frost was Jackson County’s highest ranking Union officer in the Civil War. He was living in Jackson County as early as 1850, operating a wharfboat at Ravenswood. In 1858 he purchased The Virginia Chronicle, the first regularly published newspaper in the county, from his brother William. He served in the House during the first session of the Legislature of the Reorganized Government of Virginia 1861-1862, serving as speaker of the House until resigning to accept a commission with the 11th (W.) Va. Infantry Volunteers. The 11th West Virginia was organized at Elizabeth, Wheeling, Burning Springs, Ravenswood, Kanawha Station, and Point Pleasant in western Virginia between October 29, 1861 and October 8, 1862 and contained many Jackson Countians. In the engagement at Snicker’s Ferry, Virginia, July 18, 1864, while rallying his men who were under heavy attack from Confederate General Jubal A. Early’s army, Frost was mortally wounded.