Riggs' Mill
Franklin Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Middle Spring Creek.
Riggs' Mill
From US 11 in Shippensburg, take Pa 696/N. Earl St. north about 1 mile to Bard Road. Turn left onto Bard Road which will become Old Mill Road. Drive less than 1 mile on Old Mill Rd, crossing Avon Drive. The mill will soon be approached on the right, just after crossing Middle Spring Creek.
The 1.5 story frame mill with limstone foundation is pupposedly established in 1920.
The condition of the limestone foundation seems to place the mills beginnings about 100 years earlier. A mill built in 1920 would have had concrete foundations unless this mill was rebuilt upon the older foundation.
A watercolor of the mill painted in 1981 by Henry Bentz. 'Update: George Rothlingshofer said on 10/18/2018- Mill is gone. Sad.
The mill operated into the late 1930's-early 1940's. Steam power was used in later years when the waterpower was inadequate to efficiently operate the mill.