Longtime Cross Mill operator Harry Cross is seen in this file photo in the York Daily Record/Sunday News archives. Cross transferred ownership of the mill to York County in 1979. (See photo of the mill-turned-museum below.) Background posts: Philip King house jewel of old York paper mill site and Felton landmark: 'The mill at one time was gossip central' and Glen Rock Mill Inn: 'They are happy to see it open again'.
York County history enthusiasts Ray Kinard and Terry Koller have embarked on the project of visiting York County grist mills.
So far, they've visited dozens.
The gold standard for studying York County mills is the massive work of Grant Voaden, an inventory of 300 mills found in the York County Heritage Trust archives.
Kinard has a copy of a Voaden inventory, but the document does not have the precise location of the mills.
That would aid the K-Team's tramping... .
Continue reading Web site inventories York County, state, national grist mills.
