The mill was built c. 1800 by Michael Ege Sr., who operated the mill until his demise in 1815. An earlier date of 1745 may pertain to an earlier mill on the site. His daughter, Mary, and her husband Dr. William C Chambers inherited the mill. The Chambers family retained ownership of the mill until 1867; when, Mary's heirs sold it to the Honorable Wilbur F. Sadler. His interest was purely for investment purposes.

The mill was then sold several times until George Cleaver and partner, Abram Ernst, bought the mill in 1889, running it until 1919. Again the mill changes hands numerous times.

At some point George Enck owned the mill and that is the name the mill is known by today. The mill was constructed of local fieldstone with cut sandstone corner quoins, door sills, lintels, and cornice course. One notable feature of this mill are the columns inside supporting the floor framing. They are of walnut, 12"X 12", and the longest are 14' in length.

The mill is quite different, consisting of 2 separate buildings, almost identical, connected by a frame structure housing two, eight foot wide breastshot wheels that turned the buhrstones for each section or mill wing.

Long headraces were needed since the fall of the Yellow Breaches was rather slight. This mills hand-dug headrace is about a half mile long. The waterwheels gave way to turbines later and the mill closed down in the 1940's.

*Update: The internal machinery was removed but there are some interesting, round-turned support beams in the structure. It appears from a Mill Consultant and Millwright's viewpoint that one side of the mills machinery was removed and became grain storage while the other half (or side) of the mill continued to operate as a flour mill. Ted Hazen 10/2007*