The 35'X 50' 2.5 story frame mill on on 1 story of stone was erected in 1818 by Peter Kuhns on property originall owned by Jacob Schnyder in 1784.

The mill and property was deeded to George Sampsell in 1829. This was the name the mill would be know as for most of its life-span.

This is the outlet arch, where some of the water of Penns Creek exits the mill after having it power used by the mill.

The millrace/headrace approaching the mill. George Sampsell died and Hophnia Sampsell becomes the deedholder of the mill.

Two of three Monarch Roller Mills, manufactured by Sprout Waldron Co., Muncy, Pa. The property was deeded to JW (Doc) Sampsell in 1903. Doc had graduated from Jeff Medical College in 1878, then Judge Hophnia Sampsell suffered a fatal accident at the headgate sawmill in 1898 and the ownership fell to Doc.

A Monarch Sifter, Size 6-100, Style K, Serial Number 1352, also manufactured by Sprout Waldron Co, Muncy-The Mill Builders. Patent munbers can be read on the sifter.

A c. 1885 flour purifier, which separated the bran from the flour.

The Monarch friction clutch flour packer #596 in the photo was also manufactured by Sprout Waldron. The machine to the left of the packer is a sack stitcher, electric powered.

The heap of canvas strips in the middle of the floor was used in wood encased square tubes. The buckets fastened riveted to the canvas belt held grain, corn, middlings, and or any stage of grindings. The elevators formed by the encased belts took material to an upper floor to be ground finer as it worked its way by gravity through rollers, and in earlier times, through the sets of millstones

Andrew Herbster was the miller beginning in 1904, although the Sampsell's still owned the mill. Several brands of feeds produced took the Herbster product name at mills in Penns Creek and nearby Laurelton.

The mill became up-to-date in 1908 with the introduction of the roller mill process. George Hophnia was a miller there in 1913, Charles Steese in 1918, and Paul Campbell in 1921.

A collection of wooden pulleys for belt driven power and some millstone dressing picks at lower left. Doc Sampsell died in 1934 and A. Herbster continued or resumed to mill at Sampsell's Mill. Edgar Bowersox milled from 1946, finally closing the mill in 1951.

Chickens were raised in the mill throughout the 1950's. The mill was placed on Pennsylvania's inventory of historic site in 1964. The Penns Creek Pottery was formed in 1979, some equipment from Dinges Mill was moved to the mill and pottery business sheltered in the mill in 1989. Grand opening was in 1990; and in 2005, the 25th Anniversary of Penns Creek Pottery was celebrated at the mill. GPS: 77' 02.58W, 40' 52.02N