Crumbling's Mill / Felton Mill
York Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: North Branch Muddy Creek.
Crumbling's Mill / Felton Mill
From Pa 74 in Red Lion, take S. Main Street south. It becomes Felton Road beyond the Red Lion Boro limits. Go about 5 miles south from Pa 74 to the Boro of Felton. The mill is on Main Street across from the junction with High Street.
The mill, built as a water powered mill by Tobias Crumbling in 1863, took water from Mill Creek and also Pine Run. It converted over to electricity in the 1920's, seeing how it was located in town and electricity was readily available in town much earlier than in rural areas.
The man who owned the mill for over 40 years believes there was an earlier mill on the site asindeed there was. An earlier mill was operated by Michael Mitzel, 1818; Daniel Mitzel, 1850; York Bank 1858; and Tobias Crumbling in 1862. Crumbling built his new mill a year later.
Other owner of the second mill, Felton Mill, were Joseph Sterner, John Henry Payne, George Kohler, Henry Sechrist, Horace Hake, H.H. Minnich, and Charles Grove & Sons who ran the mill into 1994, then closing. The mill operated into the 1970's, and today, a part of it houses the Felton Borough Office. *Update: The mill was being torn down in January 2009 because it was deemed to be a fire hazzard. Debra Vannoy 01/15/2009* WELL what isn't a fire hazzard!!
The historical information concerning owners and operators of the previous and current mill buildings was taken from a publication of the Historical Society of York County. *Update: The Rev. Edward Crumbling was the son of Tobias Crumbling, c. 1916. Edwards L. Hevner *