Dorn's Flour and Grist Mill 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 grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

located at McCormick in

McCormick County, South Carolina McCormick County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,526, making it the second-least populous county in South Carolina. Its county seat is McCormick. The county was formed in 1 ...

. It was built circa 1898 and is a 2 1/2- story, red brick structure with projecting one-story wings. A three-story brick wall of cross-shaped plan was built in 1915 to support a water tower tank. The mill originally housed a

cotton gin A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); ...

. In the 1920s, grist mill equipment was added. The mill closed in the 1940s. It was listed on the

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in 1976.

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Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Industrial buildings completed in 1898 Buildings and structures in McCormick County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in McCormick County, South Carolina {{McCormickCountySC-NRHP-stub