{"nrhp_refnum":"77001204","name":"Wallace-Cross Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Felton","address_restricted":false,"city":"Felton","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.79942349600003,"lon":-76.54045592999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story frame gristmill on a stone foundation, located on Rambo Creek in East Hopewell Township, York County, Pennsylvania, near Hopewell Center and Cross Roads. It was built in 1840 by Alexander Wallace.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is significant as one of several mills on Rambo Creek that served the surrounding rural area, and as a gristmill that has remained largely as it was in the 1800s. Its operation within the Wallace family and later the Cross family, and its retained machinery, are cited as the basis for its importance under industry.","narrative":"Built in 1840 by Alexander Wallace on Rambo Creek in East Hopewell Township, York County, this two and one-half story frame gristmill sits on a stone foundation beneath a gable roof with a decorative barge board. It was powered first by a wooden overshot wheel, replaced in the 1850s by an 11-foot steel wheel made by the Fitz Foundry in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The mill served farmers in the Hopewell Center and Cross Roads areas and was used to grind grain for feed, corn meal and buckwheat. Ownership stayed within the Wallace family until 1895, when it passed to the J. Nelson Cross family. The mill is regarded as unusual because it remains much as it was in the 1800s, retaining much of its original machinery, including a working calico-brand stone, a transporting screw, a hand separator and a corn cob breaker. It is now used by local schools and York County Parks for education.","period_of_significance":"1840","architect_builder":"Alexander Wallace","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still used occasionally; today used as an educational resource for local schools and the York County Parks; somewhat deteriorated, with clapboard walls shifted and in poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.638615-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001204.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001204/d58997a860-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001204/d58997a860-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Purple pirouette","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace_Cross_Mill_with_Miller%27s_House_in_Background.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple pirouette</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallace_Cross_Mill_with_Miller%27s_House_in_Background.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace-Cross_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/wallace-cross-mill-77001204/"}