The mill is deserted and doesn't appear to be used for anything. The presence of scaffolding suggests that someone had started to make some repairs or renovations, but this looks to have been some time ago. The 3.5 story brick mill contained most of it equipment as of Nov. 1992. The 35'x55' grinding structure was powered by Montour Creek and also steam from a brick steam engine house across the road. Also a brick miller's house, c. 1812, is nearby.

Prior to the 1990's restoration of the mill there was an equally large wooden saw mill structured attached to this end of the mill. The mill contained two pairs of millstones, and a sack hoist or windlass. In the mill's basement was a complete wooden water wheel, and it was a complete pre-Oliver Evans mill. The mill has been recently sold again, and its future is unknown.

*Update Steve Kidd 11-12-04* The mill has had some renovating since 1992, and has a much better appearance now. Photo courtesy of Pat Cook.

Jacob Arnold, an engineering specialist for Siemens Building Technologies, has been slowly restoring the old 1826 mill a little at a time.

Arnold, used to designing HW/AC systems for large industrial buildings, has determined to restore the building, begiining about 2000, to turn the old mill into a museum.

The mill, which operated into the mid-1920's, was made obsolete by faster, more productive and therefore more economical mills, at that time.

The old remnants of the waterwheel lies in the dark recesses of the basement. The headrace has been diverted from the original pathway, some of the land being owned by the West Perry School District.

Sh 74 is now an obstruction to get water from Montour Creek to the mill, since having been paved, the culvert conducting water under the road was demolished and an old auxillery steam plant on the opposite side of the road was only an existing foundation.

Some portions of the mill are greatly distressed, while others look as though the workers just left for the night, to return in the morning to resume operations. Arnold plans to hand-crasft much of the missing wooden mechanisms that are missing or too badl deteriorated. In 2000, he was being helped by his father, Glenn Arnold.

Arnold would like to form non-profit organization so he will be able to apply for and receive federal and historical grants to fund his restoration. The mill was purchased in April 2000 along with 11 acres and the brick miller's house, c. 1812, into which he has almost ready to inhabit.GPS: 40? 22.95'N, 77? 18.46'W 620' elevation