The old grist mill still functions as a feed mill, or rather as a feed supply store. It is unlikely that feeds are mixed and bagged anymore here.

The 2nd and 3rd floor doors are on a sliding track arrangement. A corn or water mill was first mentioned here on an early deed, also a saw mill on six acres of land.

James Trimble, from the neighboring township on the north-West Bradfod Twp., had the mills and about 100 acres, including several tenements fron 1771-1786. The mill is situated rather close to Sh 162.

The entrance of the mill headrace into the mill. Many ownership changes occurred in the early 1800's, and in 1856, Thomas Smedley offered for sale the complex on 146 acres.

The saw mill was driven by a Howd's iron wheel(turbine). In 1838, Samuel B. Howd, of Geneva, New York had improved on Jean Victor Poncelet's introduction of curved blades/fins, which doubled the efficiency of an undershot wheel, by producing a turbine with inward flow, resulting in smaller, cheaper wheel capable of higher speeds than the outward flow turbine.

With the development of the Wilmington & Noethern RR just north of the mill at Embreeville Station in 1869, a new town, New Embreeville began to develop. Robert Smith bought 29 acres and the mill when this new access to market came about in 1876. Gearing pictured with a change in direction of the power train.

Belts from the floor above drove the large pulley. A seemingly disconnected feature is the line shaft in foreground, connecting by two bevel gears to energize the vertical shaft.

A Unique Sieve Purifier #2, from Robinson Mfg., Muncy, Pa. Smith converted the mill to the new patent roller machinery in 1883-85. He had enlarged the old stone & frame mill by building a large frame addition a few years earlier.

Updating the mill sizewise and machinery wise enabled it to continue to operate through the first three score of the 20th century. In 1966, it was remarked to be the only water-powered, operating mill on the Brandywine Creek. The milling machine pictured is a flour dresser, which sorts and distributes flour according to grades of fineness.

This view shows the rear of the mill along the millrace, the mill structure above the headrace inlet.

Some of the packaged products of feeds and home & garden supplies handled by the still operating feed mill/feed store. GPS: -75 43.49W, 39 55.41N Embreeville Mill-PO Box 570, Unionville, Pa 19375 (215) 486-6369

One final look at Embreeville Mill, particularly the outlet area of the race. The small two story structure in the forground gives access to the turbine pit and its related pulleys and shafts for tranferring power from the vertical shaft of the turbine to the hozontal and other vertical shafts that convey the power to the rest of the mill floors.