The 20'X 70' frame feed mill was built in 1890 by Allen Espenshade.

The mill is close, within 500' of Swatara Creek, but was never water-powered.

The mill was run continuously by Allen until 1946, then by his son, Raymond 'Red' Espenshade until 1979, when a fire within the mill caused cessation of milling activity.

Some wooden pulley and gearing mechanism under the peak inside of the mill. Notice the corregated roofing installed after the fire in 1979 and the roofing on the right, the original roofing.

Steel pulleys on line shafts that were the source of power for various other milling activities in the mill.

Watercolor of Espenshade's Mill painted by R. Freeborn. The mill suffered a fire internally in 1979, then was operated as an antique shop for two years.

In 1981, the mill was purchased Tom Germak, who established his Germak Electric contractors supply co. in the renovated mill. A photo from the early 1900's.

Photo in a local newspaper at about the turn of the 20th century.

The mill scales under the roof on the right side of the mill, an old Howe scale. The scale platform is also under the shed overhang where the truck in photo #3 is parked.

The miller's house across the E. Main Street from the mill. The rock memorial to the right of the photo commemorates the old creek ford at East Middletown. Mr. Allen Espenshade donated the land for the memorial, when the DAR was having trouble finding land for it without moving it across the bridge/creek which would have put it outside the borough.

The home of Germak Electric. An electrical contractor business at 760 E. Main St., Middletown, Pa., 17057 ph:717-944-2487.