Newlin Grist Mill (6/15/2019)

Saturday, June 15, 2019
We had heard there are hiking trails at Newlin Grist Mill (Glen Mills, PA), but we ended up being tourists and taking the mill tour.

Former Markham Station (1854) serves as the visitor center;
from here mill products were shipped on the
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Octorara branch to ports in NJ

Newlin Grist Mill (1704 as a custom mill to grind grains for a fee,
later expanded into a merchant mill where grains were purchased,
then ground and sold by the miller) operated until 1941

The wooden water wheel with a diameter of 15.5 feet,
on a 22-foot shaft with a diameter of 24 inches

On the miller's level, with the grinding level above

Corn in the hopper above a spinning grindstone

The hopper sits on a horse and a "shoe" funnels the corn
into the "eye," a hole in the middle of the grindstone

Millstone crane for lifting and moving a millstone

The lower grindstone with tools for sharpening
the exacting pattern of edges

Up on the sifting level, the ground wheat
must be raked to dry out water that was
part of the wheat kernels

A sifter, where the product of the first sifting
was called "run of the mill"

Because Newlin Grist Mill is constructing
their own replacement water wheel,
they have a working millwright shop (KSS)

Millwright shop with a section of the curved wheel

Demonstrating the type of saw that was likely
used to cut pieces for the original water wheel

Bake oven

Orchard

Probably a bat house, and KEnt

Railroad bridge over Chester Creek (KSS)

An archaeological dig

Artifacts from the dig (KSS)

Water from the mill race fills several trout ponds

Fishin'

Reconstructed 18C McKinley blacksmith shop

The mill race goes underground
across the street from the mill

On the way home we stopped for lunch at Ye Olde
Concordville Inn (established in the 1770s as a tavern)

Broiled crab cakes made with their World Famous Recipe!