Posted in 2021
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is Flory’s Mill in Manheim Township.
Jacob and Magdalena Kaufman built a stone mill along the Little Conestoga Creek on a...
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This week features Weaver’s Mill, a two and a half-story stone and frame mill located in East Earl township. The water source for the mill was the...
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today, we travel back to Warwick Township to another mill on the Lititz Run called the Rothsville Mill, also known as Pfautz’s Mill.
The...
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today, I am featuring a mill in the southwestern part of the county, along a small tributary of the Susquehanna River called Fishing Creek. The Drumore Mill,...
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Today’s segment features the Mascot Roller Mills. The Mascot Roller Mill is located on the Mill Stream at 2900 Stumptown Road in Upper Leacock Township, Pennsylvania.
This mill figures in the memory of the writer, who grew...
Here from the brow of the hill I look, Through a lattice of boughs and leaves. On the old gray mill with its...
It’s Monday, y’all! Each Monday morning, I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is the Smoketown Mill in East Lampeter Township.
The mill was built in 1770 by James and Deborah Gibbons along the road between...
I recently had the opportunity to walk around inside the former Stockyards Inn and photograph its interior. The building has a rich history and is going through another transition now that the popular restaurant has closed, and new investors are making plans for its future.
Welcome to Mill Monday! Each Monday morning, I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is the Maple Grove, aka Abbeville Mill in Manor township.
In 1717, one year before the death of William Penn and two...
Welcome to Mill Monday! Each Monday morning I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today's featured mill is the Compass Mill in Warwick Township. When the Moravian Brotherhood began laying out the new town of Lititz in 1754, landowner George Kline purchased...
