Mill Details

Lantz Roller Mill

Shenandoah Co. | Virginia | USA
Known Dates: u/k
Township: u/k
Watersource: Stony Creek.

Official Website: www.lantzmill.org
Location / Directions

Lantz Roller Mill

Take Sh 185 west from US 11 in Edinburg, soon after the I-81 underpass, continue on Sh 675 for about one mile, turn left on Sh 809, turn next right on Sh 691 and follow down to he mill on the left.

Verse for Thought
'For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God."
({2 Corinthians 4:15 NKJV})
Lantz Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/02/2006

An old frame mill in not real good condition.

Lantz Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/02/2006

The mill is about 35'X 40', 2.5 stories tall with additions on both sides.

Lantz Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/02/2006

This steel waterWheel is half buried in the ground on the rear upstream corner of the mill along Stony Creek. A large slab of concrete leans up against the 4' wide, 4' diameter wheel. The wheel seems to have been pulled out of its original postition and placed here. Upon examination of a picture from the 1920's of the mill, the wheel is where it originally operated. The concrete slab used to be vertical instead of leaning against the wheel, and supported the wooden flume box carrying water to the wheel. A shunt could close off the flume to bypass water out the side toward the photographer.

Lantz Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/02/2005

A advertising sign stating that Lantz Roller Mills of Edinburg, Virginia was the purveyor of Eshelman's Red Rose Guaranteed Feeds, established in 1842. This brand of feed originated in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was and still is sold throughout the Atlantic Seaboard states and into the Midwestern states.

Lantz Roller Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/02/2006

A parting shot,looking back at the old mill on Sh 961 along Stony Creek. A swinging walk-across bridge over Stony Creek is quite helpful in getting views of the rear of the mill.

Lantz Roller Mill
Margo Mead 1981

*Update: Photo of Lantz Mill in 1981. Submitted by Margo Mead 03/01/2009*

Lantz Roller Mill
Ted Hazen 1908 postcard submitted 07/03/2009

*Update: Old postcard image of the mill dated 1908. Ted Hazen 07-03-2009*

 
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