Conoy Creek Watershed

This is a listing of water-powered mills along the Conoy Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Conoy Creek is an 11.2-mile-long tributary of the Susquehanna River. It originates near Elizabethtown and enters the Susquehanna at Bainbridge. Conoy Creek is named after the Piscataway Conoy tribe that lived along its banks. The mills are listed by order of the water flow.

Name

AKA

Disposition

Built

Type

Water Source

Conoy Feed Mill
Gish’s
Site
1801
Flour, Grist
Conoy Creek
Rutt’s
Root’s
Site
1751
Grist, Saw
Conoy Creek
Nissley’s Chopping Mill
Brubaker’s
Site
1824
Grist
Conoy Creek
Horst’s
Site
Grist
Conoy Creek
Horst’s
Residence
1740
Flour, Grist
Conoy Creek
Pioneer
Engle
Site
1811
Flour, Grist, Saw, Cider
Conoy Creek
Breneman’s Mill
Business
1751
Flour, Grist, Saw
Conoy Creek
Locust Grove
Collins
Site
1738
Flour, Grist, Saw
Conoy Creek