Mill Details

Millport Roller Mill

Lancaster Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: Earlier mill c. 1816-22, this mill 1892
Township: Warwick Twp.
Watersource: Lititz Run.
Location / Directions

Millport Roller Mill

Five miles SE of Akron, Pa. make an angled right turn from Pa 272 onto Pa 722, a couple hundred yards north of US 222. Turn right on Becker Road after 0.25 miles, go about 1.5 miles, turn left on E. Millport Road. The mill is on the right in less than a half mile, after passing Warwick Road junction on the right.

Verse for Thought
"...Try Me now in this,...if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it."
({Malachi 3:10b NKJV})
Millport Roller Mill
Jim Miller 10/26/92

A saw mill was listed for sale by Joseph Musser in 1816, and a 3 story stone grist mill & saw mill, 40'X 50', was offered for sale in 1822 in the new community of Millport.

Millport Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey winter 2004-05

The mill was acquired in the 1820's by Jacob Weis, Samuel Fry becoming the recipient in 1862 since he had married Weis' daughter. C. Neff ran the mill in 1875. The mill was rebuilt in 1892, utilizing some of the original foundations, by S. Goffroth.

Millport Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey winter 2004-05

The rebuilt mill is a 60'X 80' structure 2.5 stories frame with a stone foundation. Purchased in 1902 by Wallace Zook, then owned by Elmer L. Zook in 1932, J.R. Zook in 1994. Currently operating as part of J.M. Hoober Co., Stocker Feed Division.

Millport Roller Mill

The flour & grist mill was fed by the waters of Lititz Run, dropping 12' from the dam as it traveled through the 1700' headrace, a 2500' tailrace returned the water after turning the two turbines to produce 50 barrels/day of flour.

 
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