Mill Details

John Snider Mill / Snyder's Folly

Bedford Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: c. 1812
Township: South Woodbury Twp.
Watersource: Yellow Creek.
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John Snider Mill / Snyder's Folly

This site lies on the east side of Pa 36 at the junction of Pa 36 and Pa 869 in Bedford Co.

John Snider Mill / Snyder's Folly
Robert T.Kinsey 08/17/2008

John Snider built this large stone house in 1812.

John Snider Mill / Snyder's Folly
Robert T. Kinsey 08/17/2008

Around this time he also owned a small grist mill adjacent to the house.

John Snider Mill / Snyder's Folly
Robert T.Kinsey 08/17/2008

The story is that the flow of the stream was never enough to run the mill, now a pile of rubble rock to the left of the mill. Other information points toward the present building as being the mill structure.

 
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