Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc., Greencastle, PA Videos
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Have you visited a working grain mill?
~ The ancestors of Rollie Anderson, Antrim Township, & his sister Ruth Miller, built Anderson Mill in Montgomery Township. It is still in the ownership of the Anderson family.
~ Because of his family's heritage in grain mills, Rollie decided to make a scale model of a water-powered, working grist mill.
~ Details of the scale model: wooden pins on the cog wheels, sifters, cider press and much more.
~ In Jacob Stoner’s historical paper (May 31, 1934) on old mill stones, he wrote,
~ “On September 26, 1791, George Washington, writing to his friend Arthur Young in England, stated “there is a rage for mills in Franklin County, Pa. and Washington County, Md.””
~ From the 1840 census of Franklin County, Stoner ascertained that were 97 flour and grist mills which serviced a population of almost 37,000 people.
~ If one assumed there were about five individuals per family, there was about one mill for every 80 families in Franklin County.
~ The Conococheague, Conodoguinet, and Antietam Creeks and their smaller streams like Muddy Run, supplied all the water power for the 97 grist mills, 119 sawmills, 40 distilleries, 19 iron furnaces and forges, 16 woolen and fulling mills, and many other small industries in Franklin County.
~ Mills, iron furnaces, and distilleries were huge businesses in Franklin County, each one meeting the needs of the agrarian society in its own way.
~ Enjoy the video!
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Have you visited a working grain mill? ~ The ancestors of Rollie Anderson, Antrim Township, & his sister Ruth Miller, built Anderson Mill in Montgomery Township. It is still in the ownership of the Anderson family. ~ Because of his family's heritage in grain mills, Rollie decided to make a scale model of a water-powered, working grist mill. ~ Details of the scale model: wooden pins on the cog wheels, sifters, cider press and much more. ~ In Jacob Stoner’s historical paper (May 31, 1934) on old mill stones, he wrote, ~ “On September 26, 1791, George Washington, writing to his friend Arthur Young in England, stated “there is a rage for mills in Franklin County, Pa. and Washington County, Md.”” ~ From the 1840 census of Franklin County, Stoner ascertained that were 97 flour and grist mills which serviced a population of almost 37,000 people. ~ If one assumed there were about five individuals per family, there was about one mill for every 80 families in Franklin County. ~ The Conococheague, Conodoguinet, and Antietam Creeks and their smaller streams like Muddy Run, supplied all the water power for the 97 grist mills, 119 sawmills, 40 distilleries, 19 iron furnaces and forges, 16 woolen and fulling mills, and many other small industries in Franklin County. ~ Mills, iron furnaces, and distilleries were huge businesses in Franklin County, each one meeting the needs of the agrarian society in its own way. ~ Enjoy the video!