Mill Details

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus

Lancaster Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: Early Mill 1779, This mill 1796-1802
Township: Upper Leacock Twp.
Watersource: Mill Creek.

Location / Directions

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus

Follow Beechdale Road northwest from Pa 340/Old Philadelphia Pike for about 1.5 miles to the mill on the left near Mill Creek.

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"To You, O my strength, I will sing praises; for God is my defense, my God of mercy."
({Psalm 59:17 NKJV})
Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Jim Miller 10/26.1992

An early grist, fulling, hemp, and saw mill existed on the site in 1779, operated by David Whitman. Christian Stauffer built this current mill either in 1796 or 1802. Stauffer's mill was 2.5 stories, 40'X 50' in dimensions. The current mill is 3.5 stories in height.

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Robert T. Kinsey 01/21/2006

Christian's son John took on the mill business in 1834 and Christian died in 1835. John's son Peter Stauffer was next in line for ownership of the mill in 1864. It was lenghtend and raised a story in 1870 by John Buckwalter and sold to A. K. Denlinger in 1899.

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Jim Miller 10/26/1992

R. W. Myers bought the mill in 1920 from Wayne I. Groff, who only had it 5 years. Myers closed the mill in 1924. The mill was owned by Amos Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer, who generated power for Penna. Power & Light from the mill, miller's house bank barn complex and may be doing so still.

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Robert T, Kinsey Winter-2004/2005

The mill was a flour, grist, saw, and cider mill at various times, powered by the water of Mill Creek via a 200' headrace from the 9' dam, turning an overshot wheel and one turbine to produce 19 barrels/day of flour. The tailrace was of equal length as the headrace.

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Robert T. Kinsey 01/21/2006

Location: the Franklis Metro atlas of Lancaster Co, map # 3174, H-2. Longitude: -76 11' 30" Latitude: 40 03' 10".

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Courtesy: Lancaster County Historical Society

This old photo was generously permitted to be photogaphed digitally to be used oon the site. The photo above the old photo is the same angle, but about 150 years later.

Stauffer's Mill / Myer's Mill / Stoltzfus
Robert T. Kinsey 01/21/2006

More distant view of the same side of the mill featured in the historical photo.

 
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