1780's to 1895
CURRENT CONDITION:
foundation ruins and millrace
On Little Seneca Creek in Black Hill Regional Park. Mill is where the bicycle bridge crosses the creek, opposite Black Hill Road intersection with Lake Ridge Drive.
OWNERS:
Zachariah Waters
INFORMATION:
Waters Mill is part of a tract of land called Pleasant Fields.
In the 1780's the Waters family acquired the "William and Mary tract".
In 1810 Zachariah Waters built a grist and saw mill on that tract. It was also used to press flax seed to linseed oil, used in the manufacture of paint. The Mill stopped operation in 1895. In the ruins of the mill, pieces of a French Burr millstone have been found. This is a millstone commonly used to grind flour.
Waters Mill Ruins Oct. 2002
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This page was last updated on 02.19.03