Windom Mill Farm

Limestone buildings on a 106-acre working farm beside Blue Rock Road west of Millersville make up this Lancaster County complex, centred on a farmhouse, a stone mill, a tavern, a miller's house and a bank barn. The land was patented to Samuel Herr in 1769, and in 1810 his son-in-law Jacob Kauffman is recorded as having had the large stone flour and feed mill built, with the tavern built at about the same time as a stop for Conestoga wagons on the road to the Susquehanna River. The farmhouse is dated by tradition to about 1780 but is judged stylistically closer to the Federal period, with a five-bay plan, nine-over-six windows and a corner cupboard. The mill and tavern are listed as among the best-preserved examples of their types. The complex is regarded as representative of the mixed Germanic and English vernacular that developed in rural Lancaster County in the late eighteenth century, and of the farming economy the county depended on for more than a century.