The second mill of brick, built in 1876 by Nathan Wood, son of John Wood to replace the 1838 wooden frame mill built by John Wood, a Massachuesetts native. In 1841, the mill was operated by Charles Wilson.

A loom and small nail keg seats at the checker board. Corn meal is ground with mill stones from May 2 through Oct 31, when the mill is open.

Both the frame and the brick mill were custom mills, meaning they did specific grinding jobs for customers that supplied the mill with grain, the miller usually keeping one-tenth of the product as payment. The customer's flour or cornmeal was done in a batch, so he got back the results from his own grain.

The saw mill was built by John Woods in 1837, a year before the frame grist mill, which undoubtably had its lumber for construction sawn by the saw mill. The dam on Deep Creek, built in 1836 to provide water to operate the saw and grist mills, went dry in June 17, 1922, primarily from muskrat activity that undermined the logs upon which the concrete dam was built. Te mill at the time was owned by T.J. Cullman of Chicago, who had not operated the mill for about two years prior to the dam failure.

The mill with the 12-14' steel breast/pitchback wheel supplied by a millrace to a sluice/flume. *Update: The sawmill pictured was not John Wood's sawmill. The one pictured was built by Park staff and volunteers around 1988-1989 to demonstrate to school and public groups how a sawmill worked. Wood's sawmill was the first structure built in the commumity of Deep and was a small wooden building directly south of the existing waterwheel at the road. Wood's Mill never had a waterwheel when it was in operation. It ran by 2 metal turbines where the base of today's wheel is. They were powered by water coming through an underground sluice from the dam. Joanna Shearer 02/13/2011*