{"nrhp_refnum":"96001199","name":"Clear Spring Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Capitol Hill and Clear Spring Rd., W. corner, Franklin Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dillsburg","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":40.057038039000076,"lon":-77.06443705399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clear Spring Mill is a milling complex at the southwest corner of Capitol Hill and Clear Springs Road in the hamlet of Clear Spring, Franklin Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It consists of a 2 1/2-story frame grist mill built in 1886, a 1-story sawmill, and a corncrib.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill was important to the growth of corn and wheat as cash crops in this part of York County in the second half of the 19th century, and that it served local farmers as a processing site. It also argues the grist mill is an intact, largely unaltered example of milling architecture in York County and the last remaining grist mill in Franklin Township.","narrative":"Clear Spring Mill is a milling complex in the hamlet of Clear Spring, Franklin Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Its main building, a 2 1/2-story frame grist mill, was rebuilt in 1886 by Edward and Elizabeth Dick on a site where a mill had operated since 1809. The grist mill was powered by an internal water wheel and turbines fed from a steel tank, and much of its interior, including the milling floor, bucket elevator, and pulley system, remains in place. A sawmill and a corncrib stand nearby. The site is significant for its role in processing corn and wheat grown by local farmers during the late 19th century, when grain milling supported cash crop farming in the area. The grist mill is also regarded as an intact, largely unaltered example of milling architecture in York County, and as the last remaining grist mill in Franklin Township. The sawmill, by contrast, has deteriorated badly and is open to the weather.","period_of_significance":"1886 - 1945","architect_builder":"Edward & Elizabeth Dick (builders, per datestone)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Second Empire","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The grist mill was restored in 1994 and 1995 using the Rehabilitation Tax Credit program; the sawmill is in a state of collapse.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.85432-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96001199.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001199/589a80c908-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001199/589a80c908-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clear_Spring_Mill,_Franklin_twp,_York_Co_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clear_Spring_Mill,_Franklin_twp,_York_Co_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995625","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Spring_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5130777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/clear-spring-mill-96001199/"}