Shomo Grist Mill
Berks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Kaercher's Run.
Shomo Grist Mill
Exit I-78 in Hamburg onto N. Fourth Street. Go south to E. State Street where the street becomes S. Fourth Street. The former mill building is a three story brick structure painted grey on the corner of S. Fourth St. & Pine St.
The first mill was built on this site, once the main street of Hamburg, by Martin Kaercher about 1775. George Miller replaced Kaercher's early grist, feed & flour mill with a larger mill in 1785.
This present mill, built around 1875-76 by William D. Shomo, replaced the 1785 Miller mill then operated by the Ludwig Bros. when it burned in 1875. Shomo's Union Roller Mills, operated by James M. Savage & Bro. from the turn of the 20th century, had a daily production of 20 barrels of flour with the aid of three additional workers. Wellington Confer ran the mill later on in the 1900's. The structure is basicly the same, excluding the addition on the left side. Now used for other purposes.