The 2.5 story frame mill on a 1 story stone foundation was built in 1871 by Samuel Owen Evans. His father's stone mill was below his mill on Delaware Run and Thomas Jordan's Mill, saw mill & distillery were below both. Jordan abandoned his mill structures in 1803, Gen. Evans didn't buy them, but instead, built his own mill nearby, as the Jordan mills must have been run down.

Ellis & Hungerford's history of Juniata Co of 1886 stated that Samuel Evans' Grist Mill was using millstones from a mill that had been built prior to and below his mill on Delaware Run.

General Louis (Lewis) Evans built a stone, four story grist mill in 1803 on Delaware Run between the 1776 Thomas Jordan Mill and the present mill built later by his son Samuel Owen Evans.

General Lewis Evans had served in the War of 1812, and being both a farmer and miller, Evans built the eastern-most part of his mansion in 1812, with an addition finished in 1835.

S. Owen Evans received minimal education, mainly during the winter months, working with his father on the farm and in the mill. After his father died in 1852, he came into possession of the farm and purchased the mill. He built the present mill in 1871 as stated earlier.

The 1871 Evans Mill is has now been converted into a dwelling or appartments. No equipment remains within the mill and the dam and millraces have disappeared.