Kellersville Mill
Monroe Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: McMichael Creek.
Kellersville Mill
The mill is located on the east side of Middle Eastern Belmont Pike, (SR 3023). From Sciotia, go east on Keller Road about 1.2 miles to the intersection with Middle Eastern Belmont Road. Turn right and go about 0.3 miles to the mill on the left, on the south bank of McMichael Creek.
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John George Keller acquired the land this mill sits on from his father Christopher Keller.
After operating the Brinker Mill for six years, John Keller built a mill at this site some time before 1820. The catshead looms through the November tree branches.
John George Keller and his son, Joseph Keller, ran the mill until a fire destroyed it in 1847. Keller then built a larger mill on the some site.
It became the most prosperous mill in the area, which soon became known as Kellerville.
The Kellers operated the mill until c. 1870 when Levi Slutter and his son David bought it.
The mill was then purchased by Samuel Fabel. He remodeled it in the 1890's. At the end of the 1890's, Fabel sold it to John Metzgar.
The exit area of the tailrace from the mill. When western roller mills absorbed much of the flour business, Mr. Slutter installed the roller process.
An early millers house angled east of the front of the mill.
The house has lap siding over what seems like, in several large areas, a construction of stone walls.
GPS: 40D 56.62'N, 75D 17.70'W Saylorsburg Quadrangle