Springdale Mills, also known as Shank's Mill and Shockey Mills, is a historic
grist mill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...
located at
Washington Township in
Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Franklin County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 155,932 Its county seat is Chambersburg.
Franklin County comprises the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, wh ...
. It was built in 1857, and is a 3 1/-2-story, banked brick building with a
fieldstone foundation. A 24-foot diameter Fitz overshot wheel was installed between 1900 and 1910.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1975.
References
External links
"Family wants to get Shank's Mill turning again," June 20, 2005, by Richard F. Belisle, herald-mail.com
Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Industrial buildings completed in 1857
Buildings and structures in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Grinding mills in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
1857 establishments in Pennsylvania
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