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Guides at the Mascot Mill enjoy explaining historic mill equipment,including the mill stones used before the installation of rollers, now located in the barrel room. |
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Guide Herman Brackbill explains the toll box to members the Homsher family visiting the mill. |
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These mason jars in the mill show wheat in its various stages. The Mascot Mill ground the soft winter wheat grown in Lancaster County, which made fine pies and cakes. |
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••••"I know the mill and the mill knows me," said Franklin Ressler, the wiry third-generation Ressler miller to own and operate the Mascot Roller Mills. You are also invited to come to know this historic eastern Lancaster County mill, which is one of the best preserved flour mills in the United States.
••••For three generations, from 1865 until 1977, William Ressler (1819-1892) and his descendants owned and operated the Mascot Mills. Each generation of the Resslers made the mill their livelihood, and this village their home.
••••Come walk along the banks of Mill Creek and see where the dam, near a peaceful bird sanctuary, sends water rushing into the mill head race so that it may flow through the gates to the turbines. The raw power of the water rushing beneath the mill as it turns the historic milling equipment is a living witness of America's Industrial Revolution.
••••Skilled craftsman Roy Struble takes pride in maintaining the equipment at peak efficiency so that the mill may continue to grind corn for the local farming community, and knowledgeable guides delight in making milling a living occupation.
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Guide Herman Brackbill, left, shows young visitors Megan and Nathaniel Homsher what wheat looks like before it is ground into flour. |
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The attrition (feed) mill by Robinson Manufacturing Company of Muncy, Pa., continues to mill corn for visitors and neighbors. |
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This is a head race. Water from Mill Creek flowed into the mill, providing the water power for the turbines. |
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Numerous belts, pulleys, gear wheels and other equipment is kept in peak operating condition to grind corn for local Amish farmers and visitors to the mill. |
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Old milling equipment such as the roll stands is well preserved and cared for at the Ressler Mill. Our hope is that future generations will grow to appreciate the impact milling had on society. |
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