{"nrhp_refnum":"86002888","name":"Kinder's Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"LR 62194 at Piper Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Deemston","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.03102430800004,"lon":-80.05490830799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kinder's Mill is a three-and-a-half-story rectangular fieldstone grist mill with a gable roof, located at a rural road intersection in Deemston, Washington County, Pennsylvania. It was built prior to 1800 by the Kinder family, according to family records.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is a rare survivor of a once-common industrial building type in southwestern Pennsylvania, and that its all-stone construction is unusual, with no other stone grist mill found standing in the region. It is linked to the Kinder family's role in the Whiskey Rebellion and to later use as a distillery and dairy barn.","narrative":"Kinder's Mill is a three-and-a-half-story grist mill built of fieldstone laid in random courses, set on gently sloping ground at a crossroads in Deemston, Washington County. Family records place its construction before 1800, and the land was claimed by George Kinder, a Dutch immigrant from Berks County, in 1782. Its stone walls, timber-framed interior with wooden pegs, and remnants of the waterwheel axle location and mill race survive from its working years. The mill is regarded as rare because few grist mills of its type remain in southwestern Pennsylvania, and none of the surviving examples identified in local surveys are built of stone. The building also has connections to the Whiskey Rebellion through the Kinder family and to a later distillery operation. After the mill ceased grinding, it was used as a dairy barn, and it has been vacant for about fifteen years.","period_of_significance":"C. 1782","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The structure has been vacant for the past fifteen years.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.905216-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86002888.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002888/e09221eea8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002888/e09221eea8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinder%27s_Mill_south_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</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:Kinder%27s_Mill_south_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995218","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder%27s_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6410547"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/kinders-mill-86002888/"}