This is a listing of water-powered mills in the Conowingo Creek watershed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The Conowingo Creek is a 20.2-mile-long tributary of the Susquehanna River. Its name is derived from a Lenape word meaning “at the rapids”. It originates in a pond along Route 272 in Providence Township just north of Buck. It flows mostly south through southern Lancaster County into Maryland. It enters the Susquehanna River just north of the Conowingo dam.
The mills are listed in order by water flow.
Name | AKA | Disposition | Built | Type | Water Source |
Hopkin’s | Drumore | Site | 1868 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Conowingo Creek |
Cramer’s | Stauffer’s | Site | 1890 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Conowingo Creek |
Fulton | Site | 1833 | Flour, Grist, Saw, Cider | Conowingo Creek | |
Brown’s | Storage | 1895 | Flour, Grist | Conowingo Creek | |
Wood’s | Site | c1818 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Conowingo Creek | |
Quaker | Site | c1730 | Flour, Grist | Conowingo Creek | |
Smedley’s | Site | c1817 | Flour, Grist | Little Conowingo Creek | |
Pleasant Grove | Wood’s | Site | 1867 | Flour, Grist, Saw, Cider | Conowingo Creek |