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Chipman's Mill was located near
Laurel, Delaware Laurel is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 3,865 at the time of the 2020 census. Laurel is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. It once hosted the Laurel Blue Hens of the Ea ...
, and is now the name of a Delaware State Park which encompasses the mill pond, including a boat ramp for fishing (now the primary activity). Chipman's Mill functioned into the late 1940s. Arson destroyed the structures in November 1986. The relatively remote area had been one of the last remaining residences of the
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, who left Delaware and the Chipman's Pond area in 1748.Raymond B. Clark, Jr., Delaware Church Records p. 24 (St. Michaels Maryland 1986)citing Scharf's History of Delaware Settlers soon came, attracted by the available timber and water power. Christ Church was built nearby, which still survives. The destroyed mill had two structures. In 1884, Joseph Chipman had built a one-story mill over the millrace (which survives), which contained turbines and millstones. The wooden superstructure featured
mortise and tenon A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) is a Woodworking joints, joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material. Woodworking, Woodworkers around the world have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood, mainly ...
joinery. An adjoining two story section was moved to the site from elsewhere.


See also

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Chipman Potato House The Chipman Potato House was located near Laurel, Delaware, one of the last surviving examples of its building type. The southern part of Delaware saw a sweet potato boom from 1900 until blight struck in the 1940s. In order to store the crops, p ...
, also built by the Chipman family nearby * Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware), on the other side of the mill's dam


References

Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Buildings and structures in Sussex County, Delaware Industrial buildings completed in 1884 Laurel, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware Buildings and structures in the United States destroyed by arson 1884 establishments in Delaware Demolished but still listed on the National Register of Historic Places {{Delaware-NRHP-stub