Every Monday between November 1, 2021 and May 23, 2022, I highlighted one of Lancaster County’s grist mills. Each article featured a brief story from the mill’s history. Here are all of the Mill Monday articles plus one more published on August 16, 2022.
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Mill Monday 01 – Compass Mill
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 02 – Maple Grove
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 03 – Smoketown
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 04 – Mascot
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 05 – Drumore
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 06 – Rothsville
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 07 – Weaver’s
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 08 – Flory’s
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 09 – Osceola
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 10 – Share’s
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 11 – Windom
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 12 – Oregon
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 13 – Hershey
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 14 – Baumgardners/Burnt I
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…Continue
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Mill Monday 15 – Baumgardner’s/Burnt II
Welcome the fifteenth edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Last week I introduced two mills on the Pequea Creek…Continue
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Mill Monday 16 – Donegal
Welcome the sixteenth edition of Mill Monday! Each week I feature one of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s remaining water-powered grist mills. This week we return to East Donegal Township and visit…Continue
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Mill Monday 17 – Lake
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Each week I feature one of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s remaining water-powered grist mills. This week features the Lake Mill in Manor township, so…Continue
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Mill Monday 18 – Blue Rock
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. This week features the Blue Rock Mill in Manor township also known as…Continue
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Mill Monday 19 – White Horse
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. This week features the White Horse mill also known as Henderson’s or Stauffer’s…Continue
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Mill Monday 20 – Chickies
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. This week features the Chickies Roller Mill in East Donegal Township, also known…Continue
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Mill Monday 21 – Hess
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. This week features the Hess Mill in Drumore Township, also known as the…Continue
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Mill Monday 22 – Lime Valley
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we visit the Lime Valley Mill in West Lampeter township. This mid-19th…Continue
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Mill Monday 23 – Bowmansville
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we travel to the northern part of the County to the Bowmansville…Continue
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Mill Monday 24 – Rohrer
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we visit the Calamus Creek in Paradise Township where the Highland-Rohrer mill…Continue
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Mill Monday 25 – Brownstown
Welcome to Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we feature the Brownstown (aka Wolf’s) mill on the Conestoga River in…Continue
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Mill Monday 26 – Zooks
Welcome to another Mill Monday! It’s time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we feature Zook’s (aka Bushong’s) mill on the Conestoga River in…Continue
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Mill Monday 27 – Stoneroad’s
It’s Monday morning! Time to feature another one of Lancaster County Pennsylvania’s water-powered grist mills. Today we travel back to Manor township and visit another mill on the Little Conestoga…Continue
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Mill Monday 28 – Sickman’s
Today I will feature a popular destination on the Pequea Creek in Conestoga Township. Sickmans mill has featured a campground and tubing excursions on the Pequea for many years although, like many things, the pandemic interfered with operations for the last several years. Here is the story of Sickman’s mill.
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Mill Monday 29 – Cloister
It’s Monday morning! As I mentioned last week, today is the last installment of my Mill Monday series. I haven’t covered all the mills that are still standing in Lancaster…Continue
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Mill Monday 30 – Millport
If you travel on the old Strasburg Pike, you have probably noticed an old mill that is sitting almost on the road, about one half mile south of the Lincoln…Continue