A list of watermills in the United States.
Working mills Alabama Chandlers Mill, 45ft working water wheel & Gristmill, built 1860 Centre, Alabama Kymulga Mill, Childersburg
Arkansas War Eagle Mill, Rogers, built 1832 and still in operation commercially as an undershot grist mill
California Bale Grist Mill, Napa
Connecticut Main Sawmill, Ledyard, Connecticut Winthrop Mill, New London, Connecticut, built circa 1650 Georgia Historic mills of the Atlanta area Old Mill at Berry College, Rome Nora Mill at Helen, Georgia
Illinois Franklin Creek Grist Mill, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois Graue Mill and Museum, Oak Brook
Indiana Beck's Mill, Becks Mill Bonneyville Mill, Bristol. Built mid-1830s and still operates May through October (see Elkhart County Parks and Recreation) Mansfield Roller Mill, Mansfield. Built in 1820. Currently operated by Indiana DNR. Metamora Grist Mill, Metamora. Built in 1899 and restored in 1970. Produces high quality stone-ground corn meal. Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell Stockdale Mill, Roann Bridgeton Mill, Bridgeton. Established 1823, family owned and operating. Greenfield Mills, near Howe. Family owned and operating.
Iowa Pine Creek Gristmill, Wildcat Den State Park, near Muscatine
Kentucky Mill Springs Overshot Waterwheel located at Mill Springs Park. The current mill built in 1877 on the site of a previous mill. Currently owned and operated as a park by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The wheel has a diameter of 40 feet, 10 inches, and a breast of three feet. Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. - Mill Springs Weisenberger Mill, near Midway
Maine Bog Mill, Buxton Dexter Grist Mill, Dexter, built in 1854 Maine Forest & Logging Museum also known as Leonard's Mills, has Maine's only operational saw mill. Morgan's Mills in Union, Maine produces wholesale grist mill products. Scribner's Mills in Harrison, Maine is working on reconstructing an up-and-down sawmill.
Maryland Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in use at the Wye Mill.
Massachusetts Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich, built in 1654, fully restored in 1961 Jenney Grist Mill, Plymouth, built in 1969 on site of 1636 grist mill Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, built in 1861 with operations on the site dating to 1684 Old Stockbridge Grist Mill, Scituate, built ca. 1650 Sturbridge Village grist mill, Sturbridge, built 1939 Wayside Inn Grist Mill, Sudbury, built 1929 by Henry Ford
Michigan Pears Mill, Buchanan
Minnesota Pickwick Mill, Pickwick, built in 1858 Schech's Mill, Caledonia, built in 1876
Mississippi Sciple's Water Mill in Kemper County, built in 1790 and owned by four families over the next fifty years. The Sciple family bought the property in about 1840 and has kept it running ever since. This mill also ginned cotton and sawed lumber until the 1950s.
Missouri Hodgson Mill, Ozark County Bollinger Mill, Burfordville Dillard Mill, Crawford County
Nebraska Florence Mill, Omaha
New Hampshire Littleton Grist Mill, Littleton Sanborn grist and saw mill, Loudon now known as Sanborn Farm Mills
New Jersey Cooper Gristmill, Chester
New York Mill Dam Bridge (tide mill), Centerport Roslyn Grist Mill, Roslyn Stony Brook Grist Mill, Stony Brook Tuthilltown Gristmill, Gardiner Enfield Falls Mill and Miller's House, Enfield Water Mill (Water Mill, New York) Mills at Green Hole, Philmont NY: Early 1700s Fully operational water-powered saw mill, cider press, blacksmith shop, & woodworking shop
North Carolina
Dellingers Mill, Bakersville, seasonally operational, water powered, 1867 Emmett Isaacs Mill, Surry County Gwynn Valley Mill, Brevard Linneys Mill, Alexander County, 1902 Mingus Mill, Cherokee Old Mill of Guilford, Oak Ridge. Fully operational water-powered grist mill. Founded in 1767, moved 500 feet downstream to current location in 1819. According to legend, Revolutionary War British troops seized the original mill prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781. West Point Mill, Durham Yates Mill, Wake County
Ohio Lantermans Mill Youngstown, Ohio Bear's Mill Clifton Mill, Clifton, one of the oldest grist mills still in operation Indian Mill, Upper Sandusky
Oregon Thompson's Mills, Shedd, OR, 1858, on the Calapooia River, now an Oregon State Heritage Site, Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site Butte Creek Mill, Eagle Point, OR, 1872, Little Butte Creek
Pennsylvania Bohrmans Mill, near Orwigsburg The Mill at Anselma (Lightfoot Mill), Chester Springs Newlin Mill Complex, Concordville Ressler's Mill Mascot Roller Mills, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Shoaff's Mill, Little Buffalo State Park, Perry County McConnell's Mill, McConnells Mill State Park, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island Carpenter's Grist Mill, Perryville, built in 1703 Hammond Gristmill at Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, built in 1757 Kenyon's Grist Mill, West Kingston, current mill building was built in 1886, (operation founded in 1696)
South Carolina Boykin Mill, Boykin, an operating grist mill where meal and grits have been ground by water power for over 150 years. Suber's Corn Mill, Greer, built in 1908 by Walter Hillary Suber. It was constructed on that was passed down from his father, James Ashfield Suber, who was a Civil War veteran. This was one of five mills within a radius in the early 1900s.
Tennessee Cable Mill at Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Falls Mill, Belvidere Pigeon Forge Mill, Pigeon Forge Rice Grist Mill, Rocky Top, Norris Dam State Park Gap Creek Mill at Cumberland Gap, The Olde Mill Inn Bed & Breakfast
Virginia Burwell-Morgan Mill, Millwood, built in 1782–85, still grinding a variety of grains, powered by an indoor waterwheel Locke's Mill, Berryville, Virginia, Colonial-era grist mill on the Shenandoah River. Grinding a variety of grains including certified organic, powered by water wheel. McCormick Mill, Raphine, Virginia, grist mill located on the Cyrus McCormick Farm. Causey's Mill, Causey Mill Park, Newport News George Washington's Gristmill, Mount Vernon Kennedy-Wade Mill, Raphine Woodson's Mill, Lowesville
Washington Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Woodland
West Virginia Glade Creek Grist Mill in Babcock State Park, Fayette County
Wisconsin Beckman Mill, Newark, Wisconsin Cedarburg Mill, Cedarburg Concordia Mill, Cedarburg
Extant non-operational mills
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos, California Rhodes Mill, Fertile, Iowa Greenbank Mill, Marshallton, Delaware, restored as a museum Fair Haven Flour Mill, Fairhaven, Minnesota Phelps Mill, Underwood, Minnesota Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota Terrace Mill, Terrace, Minnesota el Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, New Mexico Wolf Creek Grist Mill, Loudonville, Ohio Thomas Mill, West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania Price's Mill, Parksville, South Carolina Box Elder Flouring Mill (1857), Brigham City, Utah Planing Mill of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association (1876), Brigham City, Utah Causey's Mill, Newport News, Virginia Gish Mill, Vinton, Virginia Phoenix Mill (Virginia), Alexandria, Virginia Thorp Mill, Thorp, Washington Peirce Mill, Washington, D.C. Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Mill, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
Ruined, remnant, or partially preserved gristmills
Boshell's Mill, Townley, Alabama Gurleyville Grist Mill and Gurley-Mason Mill, Mansfield, Connecticut Cooch-Dayett Mills, Newark, Delaware a mill complex since the 1700s, the only remaining mill was built in 1838 by William Cooch Jr. Dingley's Mill, Green Valley, Fairfield, CA. 1850, in ruins now. 40 water wheel. Hearn's Mill, Seaford, Delaware Ward Spoke Mill, in ruins on Upper Pike Creek Road in Newark, Delaware Blantons Mill, Blanton Mill Rd. Griffin, Ga, restored as an office on the banks of the Flint River, built around the early 1800s Wapsipinicon Grist Mill in Independence, Iowa; owned by the Buchanan County Historical Society Matthews Mill, Union, ME. Built circa 1850, now an endangered local landmark Phoenix Mill, Plymouth, Michigan, building now offices and event space Archibald Mill, Dundas, Minnesota Marine Mill, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, operated 1839–1895, ruins preserved in a park Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ramsey Mill, Hastings, Minnesota, ruins preserved in a park Oxford Mill Ruin, Stanton Township, Minnesota Falling Spring Mill, New Liberty, Missouri Greer Mill, Greer, Missouri slated for restoration by U.S. National Forest Service Montauk Mill, Salem, Missouri National Register of Historic Places, Montauk State Park Turner Mill, Surprise, Missouri Lawrence Brook Mill, Milltown, New Jersey Elkin Creek Mill, Elkin, North Carolina Emlenton Mill, Venango County, Pennsylvania destroyed by fire in 2015 Fought's Mill, Pennsylvania GT Wilburn Grist Mill, Fall River, Tennessee Saffold Mill, Seguin Texas Swift Creek Mill, Chesterfield County Virginia, a circa 1663 grist mill now operated as a professional nonprofit theatre Audra State Park, West Virginia Valley Falls State Park, West Virginia McMullins Mill, former circa 1810? McMullan Rice Plantation mill on Rice Mill Road and Lewis St, Hartwell, Georgia
See also Watermill List of watermills Gristmill List of tide mills on Long Island
References