The limestone mill, 40'X 60' and 2.5 stories in height is situated o.5 miles downstream of the old Academia-Pomeroy Covered Bridge. The mill is now, in 1982, used for farm storage. When last operating, the mill featured "Larro" feeds.

The stone miller's house is opposite the front of the mill and both are on private property, so ask permission to look at and photograph the mill and environs.

The old Academia/Pomeroy Covered Bridge is a two span, 301' Burr Arch, built in 1901, over the Tuscaroa Creek is nearby on the left at the end of the lane into the mill.

A close-up of the inlet arch to the mill, supplied with water-power from the Tuscarora Creek.

A little closer look into the inlet arch picturing the turbine silted into the dirt under the mill.GPS: 40' 29.74'N, 77' 28.46'W 492'/150 meters Spruce Hill Quadrangle

The Hon. Joseph Pomeroy, of French-Huguenot descent andfor many years the owner of the Beale-Patterson homestead and mill, was an active and successful business man, a merchant, and an associate judge of Juniata County.

Abraham Stamford (Sanford) was taxed in 1767 for the first grist mill on west side of the Juniata River, as a renter. A mill owned by James Patterson, at Mexico, was the only other mill in the county that was taxed for that year.

In 1768, there were two mills west of the river taxed; one to Thomas Beale, who held his father, Williams', property at Academia and the other a mill owned by Robert Campbell on Licking Creek.

Beale also had a saw-mill, 1769-71 and 1801-2. John Patterson operated the mill from 1811 to 1836. The first mill, near the dam, washed away in a flood; while, the second mill was built about halfthe distance from the dam to the present mills location.