Guldin Mill

Built of limestone, the Guldin Mill stands on Guldin Creek east of Blandon and combines a house and a gristmill under one roof. The house section bears a datestone of 1781 and has a center chimney and a three-room plan typical of Germanic building. The mill section, dated 1822 by its datestone, is one of the largest and most fully equipped mills in the county. Its interior holds two pairs of French buhr millstones, a turbine system, roller mills from the late nineteenth century, and early tentering gear. The nomination notes that the mill's wooden shafts and bearings from its earlier vertical water wheels survive, and that the building shows the change from meal bin to bucket elevator. Milling continued into the 1950s, and the mill is valued for documenting European folk practices among colonial settlers and the history of mill engineering.