STOCKDALE MILL

Events

 

TOUR HOURS for 2011

May through October 31


Saturdays 12:00 - 4:00

 

 

Contact us to schedule group tours at other times:
answering machine: (765) 833-2019 during season
or
(765) 833-2642
e-mail us: info @ stockdalemill.org

A working water-powered flour and grist mill * * * operated by community volunteers

 

New for 2011

WHEAT ELEVATOR
The bucket elevator which carries wheat from the basement drag to the receiving seperator on the top floor has been restored.
 

HAMMERMILL
The hammermill is now on display in the basement. This machine ground ear corn, shelled corn, and oats for livestock fee..

BOLTING SIFTERS
Three reel "bolting" sifters on the top floor are running. These are the final sifters for bran, middlings, and flour.

  

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Roann Lions Covered Bridge Festival - 2011 - Thursday through Sunday in Roann - Sept 8 thru Sept 11, 2011

Mill Festival hours:
Saturday Sept 10 * 10:00 - 6:00
Sunday Sept 11 * 12:00 - 4:00
plus special dispalays at the Mill: display of several "hit-and-miss" old gasoline engines operating a varitey of equipment - horseshoe making by a ferrier blacksmith - unique baked goods from Big Brick House Bakery - mumms from Squirrel Creek Nursery

FOUNDERS DAY PICNIC

The picnic will be held inside the mill on October 16, 2010. If you have ever volunteered time or materials, please come and enjoy the fun.

 

PAST EVENTS

 

GREAT EEL RIVER DUCK RACE - Results 2011

1st * Sara Van Buskirk * Wabash, IN * #198
2nd * Braydon Zink * Rochester, IN * #99
3rd * Pat Mouser * Wabash, IN * #200

 

CANOE TRIP - August 28th, 2010 - The Middle Eel River Watershed sponsored a canoe trip from SR 15 to the Stockdale Mill. Parking was at the mill. Mill tours were available morning and afternoon.

 

 

 

 

Historic Landmarks Tour - August 14

North Central Moveable Feast Saturday, August 14, 2009
 On August 14, 2009 the mill hosted Historic Landmarks Foundation’s north central regional annual meeting and moveable feast. Dinner was served on the Roann Covered Bridge, and the meeting, silent auction and dessert were held at the Roann Paw-Paw Township Public Library.
The Stockdale Mill Foundation was honored as the "Preservationists of the Year", not only for mill restoration, but for community involvement and interpreting to the public.

 

http://www.historiclandmarks.org/tours/Pages/CalendarDetails.aspx?EventID=264

 

 

Book signing by local author Joe Krom

June 20, 2009
His historical novel, "Heart of a Warrior: The True Saga of Sweet Breeze and Wiliam Wells", covers battles and peace treaties
between the Miami nation and the US from the end of the Revolutionary War to the beginnings of the War of 1812.
Several battles occured on the Eel, Wabash, Mississinewa, Tippecanoe, Elkhart, and Maumee Rivers
details at: www.eelrivertraders.com

 

 

We grind whole-wheat flour
and corn meal
Stone-ground by water-power

 Two floods in January and Feburary 2008 rose up into the mill basement. The January flood was 32" above the floor. After cleaning, the structure and all equpiment was found to be in good shape.

FOUNDERS PLAQUE DEDICATION


Mill volunteers honored the founders of the Stockdal Mill Foundation with a plaque.
Susanne & Dwight Fouts
Plaque unveiled October 2007

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Roann Covered Bridge Festival Mill Events

 

* * * * * Thanks to all for supporting our fundraisers ! * * * * *

Iron Bridge Festival

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Great Lakes Chapter SPOOM

{ Society for the Preservation of Old Mills }

Regional Meeting at Stockdale Mill - May 21, 2005

 


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VOLUNTEER PICNIC

All personnel at Stockdale Mill are volunteers. Today they take a day off.

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Pictures of Mill Volunteers

 

Old Fort Model A Club Tour
24 "Model A Ford" vehicles pulled in to the mill lot from the Wabash and Fort Wayne areas. The mill was a destination of the October driving tour.

 

HONOR
The Department of the Interior has notified us that the Stockdale Mill, Wabash County, Indiana was entered in the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 2004. click to enlarge

CORNMEAL PROCESSING

Volunteers of the Stockdale Mill Foundation are shown positioning cornmeal processing equipment, Spring of 2004. Cornmeal is stone-ground and milled by a water power. Visitors may purchase freshly packaged cornmeal or whole-wheat flour. click to enlarge
Big turn-out for tours.
One of the volunteer tour guides.
A Saturday tour group views water rushing in the race.
We are a kid friendly place !

 

 

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