A grist mill was the life’s blood of the community in the late 1700s thru the mid-1900s. The mills provided communities, like ours, with a way to turn their agricultural products into meal and flour ...

Sprehe & Depweg started their flour mill in 1854. Both C. D. Depweg and Francis Sprehe lived in Minster, and their homes are depicted in this etching. The mill, renamed the Minster Milling Company, ...

Restoration of the historic Roslyn Grist Mill continues to advance, with newly installed siding samples along the building’s western exterior offering an early preview of how the landmark will appear ...

Archaeologist Allison McGovern spoke at the Bryant Library on Feb. 19 about the process of uncovering local history at archaeological sites like the Roslyn Grist Mill. The event was hosted by the ...

Early pioneer accounts always include an early grist mill, or an early sawmill, but it is rare to read about an early paper mill. Yet interestingly, paper production was extremely important. It was ...

Dennis Scholl, vice president of the Hellertown Historical Society, shows the hopper and the millstone for grain Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in the historic Heller-Wagner Grist Mill in Hellertown. The ...

When teeming rain caused floodwaters to wash away Harbor Road in Stony Brook early last Monday morning, nearly emptying the adjacent Mill Pond, the 273-year-old Grist Mill next door withstood the ...

SEEKONK, Mass. (WPRI) — His name is Ray Point Jr., but most of his regulars call him “the mayor” of the Old Grist Mill. The 61-year-old has worn many hats over the more than three decades he’s worked ...

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2026, you may find yourself thinking about our country’s heritage and what daily life was like during the Colonial era. One of Pennsylvania ...