List of watermills in United States

A list of watermills in the United States.

Contents

1 Working mills
2 Ruined, remnant, or partially preserved gristmills
3 References
4 See also

Working mills

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
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos

Connecticut

Main Sawmill, Ledyard, Connecticut

Georgia

Boykin Mill, Boykin, an operating grist mill where meal and grits have been ground by water power for over 150 years.
Historic mills of the Atlanta area
Old Mill at Berry College, Rome

Indiana

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

Iowa

Pine Creek Grist Mill, Wildcat Den State Park, near Muscatine

Maine

Bog Mill, Buxton

Massachusetts

Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich
Jenney Grist Mill, Plymouth
Wayside Inn Grist Mill, Sudbury

Michigan

Pears Mill, Buchanan

Minnesota

Pickwick Mill, Pickwick, built 1858 and still operational

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

Bollinger Mill - Burfordville

Nebraska

Florence Mill, Omaha

New Hampshire

Littleton Grist Mill, Littleton
Sanborn Grist Mill, Loudon

New Jersey

Cooper Mill, Chester

New York

North Carolina

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.^[1]
West Point Mill, Durham
Yates Mill, Wake County

Ohio

Clifton Mill, Clifton, one of the oldest grist mills still in operation
Indian Mill, Upper Sandusky^[2]

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

Rhode Island

Carpenter's Grist Mill, Perryville

South Carolina

Price's Mill, Parksville
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.

Tennessee

Cable Mill at Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Pigeon Forge Mill, Pigeon Forge

Virginia

Burwell-Morgan Mill, Millwood, built in 1782-1785, still grinding a variety of grains, powered by an indoor waterwheel
George Washington's Gristmill, Mount Vernon
Kennedy-Wade Mill, Raphine

Washington

Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Washington

West Virginia

Glade Creek Grist Mill in Babcock State Park, Fayette County

Wisconsin

Cedarburg Mill, Cedarburg
Concordia Mill, Cedarburg

Ruined, remnant, or partially preserved gristmills

Gurleyville Grist Mill, Mansfield, Connecticut
Peirce Mill, Washington, D.C.
Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lawrence Brook Mill, Milltown, New Jersey
Fought's Mill, Pennsylvania
Price's Mill, Parksville, South Carolina
Causey's Mill, Virginia
Thorp Mill, Thorp, Washington
Audra State Park, West Virginia
Valley Falls State Park, West Virginia
Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Mills, Cedarburg, Wisconsin

References

See also