List of watermills in the United States

A list of watermills in the United States.

Working mills

Alabama

Chandlers Mill, 45ft working water wheel & Gristmill, built 1860 Centre, Alabama
Kymulga Mill, Childersburg

Arkansas

War Eagle Mill, Rogers, built 1832 and still in operation commercially as an undershot grist mill

California

Bale Grist Mill, Napa

Connecticut

Main Sawmill, Ledyard, Connecticut
Winthrop Mill, New London, Connecticut, built circa 1650

Georgia

Illinois

Franklin Creek Grist Mill, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois^[1]
Graue Mill and Museum,^[2] Oak Brook

Indiana

Beck's Mill, Becks Mill
Bonneyville Mill, Bristol. Built mid-1830s and still operates May through October (see Elkhart County Parks and Recreation)
Mansfield Roller Mill, Mansfield. Built in 1820. Currently operated by Indiana DNR.
Metamora Grist Mill, Metamora. Built in 1899 and restored in 1970. Produces high quality stone-ground corn meal.
Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell
Stockdale Mill, Roann
Bridgeton Mill, Bridgeton. Established 1823, family owned and operating.
Greenfield Mills, near Howe. Family owned and operating.

Iowa

Pine Creek Gristmill, Wildcat Den State Park, near Muscatine

Kentucky

Mill Springs Overshot Waterwheel located at Mill Springs Park. The current mill built in 1877 on the site of a previous mill. Currently owned and operated as a park by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The wheel has a diameter of 40 feet, 10 inches, and a breast of three feet. Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. - Mill Springs
Wisenberger Mill, near Midway

Maine

Bog Mill, Buxton
Dexter Grist Mill, Dexter, built in 1854
Maine Forest & Logging Museum also known as Leonard's Mills, has Maine's only operational saw mill.
Morgan's Mills in Union, Maine produces wholesale grist mill products.
Scribner's Mills in Harrison, Maine is working on reconstructing an up-and-down sawmill.

Maryland

Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in use at the Wye Mill.

Massachusetts

Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich, built in 1654, fully restored in 1961
Jenney Grist Mill, Plymouth, built in 1969 on site of 1636 grist mill
Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, built in 1861 with operations on the site dating to 1684
Old Stockbridge Grist Mill, Scituate, built ca. 1650
Sturbridge Village grist mill, Sturbridge, built 1939
Wayside Inn Grist Mill, Sudbury, built 1929 by Henry Ford

Michigan

Pears Mill, Buchanan

Minnesota

Pickwick Mill, Pickwick, built in 1858
Schech's Mill, Caledonia, built in 1876

Mississippi

Sciple's Water Mill in Kemper County, built in 1790 and owned by four families over the next fifty years. The Sciple family bought the property in about 1840 and has kept it running ever since. This mill also ginned cotton and sawed lumber until the 1950s.

Missouri

Nebraska

Florence Mill, Omaha

New Hampshire

Littleton Grist Mill, Littleton
Sanborn grist and saw mill, Loudon now known as Sanborn Farm Mills

New Jersey

Cooper Gristmill, Chester

New York

Mill Dam Bridge (tide mill), Centerport
Roslyn Grist Mill, Roslyn
Stony Brook Grist Mill, Stony Brook
Tuthilltown Gristmill, Gardiner
Enfield Falls Mill and Miller's House, Enfield
Water Mill (Water Mill, New York)
Mills at Green Hole, Philmont NY:
Mills at Green Hole - Mill complex
Early 1700s Fully operational water-powered saw mill, cider press, blacksmith shop, & woodworking shop

North Carolina

Dellingers Mill, Bakersville, seasonally operational, water powered, 1867
Emmett Isaacs Mill, Surry County
Gwynn Valley Mill, Brevard
Linneys Mill, Alexander County, 1902
Mingus Mill, Cherokee
Old Mill of Guilford, Oak Ridge. Fully operational water-powered grist mill. Founded in 1767, moved 500 feet downstream to current location in 1819. According to legend, Revolutionary War British troops seized the original mill prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781.^[3]
West Point Mill, Durham
Yates Mill, Wake County

Ohio

Lantermans Mill Youngstown, Ohio
Bear's Mill
Clifton Mill, Clifton, one of the oldest grist mills still in operation
Indian Mill, Upper Sandusky^[4]

Oregon

Thompson's Mills, Shedd, OR, 1858, on the Calapooia River, now an Oregon State Heritage Site, Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site
Butte Creek Mill, Eagle Point, OR, 1872, Little Butte Creek

Pennsylvania

Bohrmans Mill, near Orwigsburg
The Mill at Anselma (Lightfoot Mill), Chester Springs
Newlin Mill Complex, Concordville
Shoaff's Mill, Little Buffalo State Park, Perry County
McConnell's Mill, McConnells Mill State Park, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Carpenter's Grist Mill, Perryville, built in 1703
Hammond Gristmill at Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, built in 1757
Kenyon's Grist Mill, West Kingston, current mill building was built in 1886, (operation founded in 1696)^[5]

South Carolina

Boykin Mill, Boykin, an operating grist mill where meal and grits have been ground by water power for over 150 years.
Suber's Corn Mill, Greer, built in 1908 by Walter Hillary Suber. It was constructed on 100 acres (0.40 km²) that was passed down from his father, James Ashfield Suber, who was a Civil War veteran. This was one of five mills within a 10-mile (16 km) radius in the early 1900s.^{[citation needed]}

Tennessee

Cable Mill at Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Falls Mill, Belvidere
Pigeon Forge Mill, Pigeon Forge
Rice Grist Mill, Rocky Top, Norris Dam State Park
Gap Creek Mill at Cumberland Gap, The Olde Mill Inn Bed & Breakfast

Virginia

Burwell-Morgan Mill, Millwood, built in 1782–85, still grinding a variety of grains, powered by an indoor waterwheel
Locke's Mill, Berryville, Virginia, Colonial-era grist mill on the Shenandoah River. Grinding a variety of grains including certified organic, powered by water wheel.
McCormick Mill, Raphine, Virginia, grist mill located on the Cyrus McCormick Farm.
Causey's Mill, Causey Mill Park, Newport News
George Washington's Gristmill, Mount Vernon
Kennedy-Wade Mill, Raphine
Woodson's Mill, Lowesville

Washington

Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Woodland

West Virginia

Glade Creek Grist Mill in Babcock State Park, Fayette County

Wisconsin

Extant non-operational mills

Forbes Mill, Los Gatos, California
Rhodes Mill, Fertile, Iowa
Greenbank Mill, Marshallton, Delaware, restored as a museum
Fair Haven Flour Mill, Fairhaven, Minnesota
Phelps Mill, Underwood, Minnesota
Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Terrace Mill, Terrace, Minnesota
el Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wolf Creek Grist Mill, Loudonville, Ohio
Thomas Mill, West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania
Price's Mill, Parksville, South Carolina
Box Elder Flouring Mill (1857), Brigham City, Utah
Planing Mill of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association (1876), Brigham City, Utah
Causey's Mill, Newport News, Virginia
Gish Mill, Vinton, Virginia
Phoenix Mill (Virginia), Alexandria, Virginia
Thorp Mill, Thorp, Washington
Peirce Mill, Washington, D.C.
Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Mill, Cedarburg, Wisconsin

Ruined, remnant, or partially preserved gristmills

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Boshell's Mill, Townley, Alabama
Gurleyville Grist Mill and Gurley-Mason Mill, Mansfield, Connecticut
Cooch-Dayett Mills, Newark, Delaware a mill complex since the 1700s, the only remaining mill was built in 1838 by William Cooch Jr.
Dingley's Mill, Green Valley, Fairfield, CA. 1850, in ruins now. 40 water wheel.
Hearn's Mill, Seaford, Delaware
Ward Spoke Mill, in ruins on Upper Pike Creek Road in Newark, Delaware
Blantons Mill, Blanton Mill Rd. Griffin, Ga, restored as an office on the banks of the Flint River, built around the early 1800s
Wapsipinicon Grist Mill in Independence, Iowa; owned by the Buchanan County Historical Society
Matthews Mill, Union, ME. Built circa 1850, now an endangered local landmark
Phoenix Mill, Plymouth, Michigan, building now offices and event space
Archibald Mill, Dundas, Minnesota
Marine Mill, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, operated 1839–1895, ruins preserved in a park
Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ramsey Mill, Hastings, Minnesota, ruins preserved in a park
Oxford Mill Ruin, Stanton Township, Minnesota
Falling Spring Mill, New Liberty, Missouri
Greer Mill, Greer, Missouri slated for restoration by U.S. National Forest Service
Montauk Mill, Salem, Missouri National Register of Historic Places, Montauk State Park
Turner Mill, Surprise, Missouri
Lawrence Brook Mill, Milltown, New Jersey
Elkin Creek Mill, Elkin, North Carolina
Emlenton Mill, Venango County, Pennsylvania destroyed by fire in 2015
Fought's Mill, Pennsylvania
GT Wilburn Grist Mill, Fall River, Tennessee
Saffold Mill, Seguin Texas
Swift Creek Mill, Chesterfield County Virginia, a circa 1663 grist mill now operated as a professional nonprofit theatre
Audra State Park, West Virginia
Valley Falls State Park, West Virginia
McMullins Mill, former circa 1810? McMullan Rice Plantation mill on Rice Mill Road and Lewis St, Hartwell, Georgia

References

^ "Grist Mill Activities & Tours". Franklin Creek Conservation Association. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
^ "Home". grauemill.org.
^ "Home". oldmillofguilford.com.
^ "OHS - Places - Indian Mill". Archived from the original on 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
^ "After 323 years, will Kenyon's Grist Mill survive?".
^ https://www.beckmanmill.org/ ^{[bare URL]}
^ "History". Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2014-11-06.

[1] "Grist Mill Activities & Tours". Franklin Creek Conservation Association. Retrieved 2018-10-02.

[2] "Home". grauemill.org.

[3] "Home". oldmillofguilford.com.

[4] "OHS - Places - Indian Mill". Archived from the original on 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-04-24.

[5] "After 323 years, will Kenyon's Grist Mill survive?".

[6] ttps://www.beckmanmill.org/ ^{[bare URL]}

[7] "History". Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2014-11-06.

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Working mills

Extant non-operational mills

Ruined, remnant, or partially preserved gristmills

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References