Articles about Lancaster City and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
While researching the Chickies Rolling mill, I came across this article in the August 8, 1881 edition of the Intelligencer Journal. The story isn’t specifically about the mill but is about one of the employees of the mill. The man was employed as a “puddler”. A puddler...
Welcome the fourteenth edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This week I am highlighting two mills whose stories are intertwined. They are both situated on the Pequea Creek in Pequea Township. The two mills are Baumgardner’s...
Welcome another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today, I am highlighting Hershey’s Mill in Manor Township. It was common for a mill to be sold several times during its history. As the mill changed owners,...
Welcome another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s mill is the Oregon Roller Mill in Manheim Township. The original mill in Oregon, previously known as Catfish, was built when the fur trader Peter Bezaillion was...
Welcome another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today we will visit Manor Township and a mill that is part of a small village. The village of Windom. Windom consists of a farmhouse built in 1780,...
Welcome to the tenth edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is Henry Share’s mill in East Donegal Township just east of Marietta.
Captain John Galbraith, from Ulster, Ireland, immigrated to...
Happy New Year! And welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This week, we head over to Paradise township to feature the Osceola Mill.
The Osceola Mill is a three and...
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...
