An early grist, fulling, hemp, and saw mill existed on the site in 1779, operated by David Whitman. Christian Stauffer built this current mill either in 1796 or 1802. Stauffer's mill was 2.5 stories, 40'X 50' in dimensions. The current mill is 3.5 stories in height.

Christian's son John took on the mill business in 1834 and Christian died in 1835. John's son Peter Stauffer was next in line for ownership of the mill in 1864. It was lenghtend and raised a story in 1870 by John Buckwalter and sold to A. K. Denlinger in 1899.

R. W. Myers bought the mill in 1920 from Wayne I. Groff, who only had it 5 years. Myers closed the mill in 1924. The mill was owned by Amos Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer, who generated power for Penna. Power & Light from the mill, miller's house bank barn complex and may be doing so still.

The mill was a flour, grist, saw, and cider mill at various times, powered by the water of Mill Creek via a 200' headrace from the 9' dam, turning an overshot wheel and one turbine to produce 19 barrels/day of flour. The tailrace was of equal length as the headrace.

Location: the Franklis Metro atlas of Lancaster Co, map # 3174, H-2. Longitude: -76 11' 30" Latitude: 40 03' 10".

This old photo was generously permitted to be photogaphed digitally to be used oon the site. The photo above the old photo is the same angle, but about 150 years later.

More distant view of the same side of the mill featured in the historical photo.