Detters Mill was a small 19th-century community in
Dover Township,
York County, Pennsylvania
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, United States, located south of
Wellsville, and southwest of
Harrisburg
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.
In 1830, a local miller named George Sheffer constructed a stone grist mill on Harmony Grove Road near the confluence of
Bermudian Creek
Bermudian Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of Conewago Creek in Adams and York counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, ...
and
Conewago Creek. A few other families later constructed homes in the vicinity. The mill, located on the eastern bank of Conewago Creek, closed in the early 20th century and the community waned. The covered bridge of the township collapsed in 1965. As of 2008, the old mill was being used as an apartment complex.
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Unincorporated communities in York County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
1830 establishments in Pennsylvania