Hempfield Mills / Roots Country Market & Auction
Lancaster Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
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Hempfield Mills / Roots Country Market & Auction
Go NW out of East Petersburg, turn left on Becker Road, then left on Graystone Road. The mill is at 705 Graystone Road along the Conrail tracks near Lititz Road junction.
The current proprietor of the mill property and buildings, Root Country Market & Auction at 705 Graystone Road.
A photo of an early photo when the mill was known as the Lancaster Farmers Cooperative about 1915. Thanks to Tom Longenecker, the Market Master for Roots Country Market & Auction for permission to photograph, post on the web, and for the mill's history as known.
The Lancaster Farmers Cooperative after an addition sometime before if closing in 1925.
The view from the modern storage silos along the tracks now used by Conrail. The mill buildings are still the same as in 1925, except for the added elevator and silos.
The mill was the Hempfield Mills, then Walgemuth Mills sometime between the 1930's and the 1950's.
In the 1970's the mill was a landscaping and garden supply business.
This rainy day, the Roots Country Market & Auction was having a hard time keeping things dry. The tables were either hurriedly emptied or never loaded with merchandise. The interior has a vast amount of goods and items of interest for sale. It is great that the mill building has found a new use that is compatable with it's original purpose.