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Little Bluestone River

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The 9.5-mile Little Bluestone River is located in Summers County. It flows from Flat Top Mountain until it joins the Bluestone River near the former village of Lilly, which was settled in the late 1700s.

A colonial soldier who lived there started one of the oldest Baptist churches west of the Allegheny Mountains. The river area was used for farming, logging, and milling. The river has a waterfall at Fall Rock, once the site of the county's last gristmill. Its lower part of the river is now included in the Bluestone Dam conservation project.