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STOCKDALE MILL
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Events
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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
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A working
water-powered flour and grist mill * * * operated by community volunteers
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VOLUNTEERS
WELCOME
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| The Stockdale Mill depends entirely on volunteers to operate. New volunteers are needed for restoration, tour guides, landscaping, general maintenance, publicity, and assorted tasks. Can you help? Call us today! |
Click Here for a DONATION CARD
Click Here for a pdf DONATION CARD ( "pdf" )
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lions "Breakfast on the Covered Bridge"
June 29, 2013
Special Mill Tour hours: 9AM - 4PM
Have a leisurely breakfast in a unique setting then stop over to see the mill.
Independence Day celebration
- Roann
July 6, 2013
- fireworks - link
Roann Covered Bridge Festival
September 5-8, 2013
link
Society for the Preservation of
Old Mills (SPOOM)
October 5, 2013
Great Lakes Chapter meeting will be at the Stockdale Mill - public is invited
link
MILLING EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
We have one surplus antique large reel sifter for sale:
sifter for sale
PAST EVENTS
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Foodwaters threatened to delay On April 19, 2031 the Eel River reached the third highest level ever recorded at the Stockdale Mill. Water stood 36-1/2" above the basement floor. That is 2" below the 1932 flood level and 13-1/2" below the record flood of 1959. Mill volunteers showed up and community members pitched in to clean and scrub to prepare for the opening day which was to be 15 days later. After much hard work, structural inspectiion, and finishing touches the mill opened for visitors as planned on May 4. |
The annual picnic for mill volunteers and donars is October 21, 2012 at 1:00.
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Although we do not keep regular Saturday hours from November through April, the mill is easily viewed from SR16 and the state Public Access Site across the river. Special tours may be arranged for groups year round. |
BALD EAGLE SIGHTING - On October 15 mill volunteers Roger Harman and Jim Watson sighted a bald eagle at the Stockdale Mill. The eagle was perched in a tree adjacent to the mill on the west side. He appeared to be watching for fish in the river immediately below the dam. Eagle sightings have become more frequent along the Eel River in the past three years. This is the first reported sighting at the Stockdale Mill in Roann, IN.
ROANN COVERED BRIDGE FESTIVAL
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GREAT EEL RIVER DUCK RACE 2012 |
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Special Displays at the Mill |
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GREAT LAKES SPOOM Jim and Ruthalice Watson represented the Stockdale Mill at the regional conference of Society for the Preservation Of Old Mills. |
IRON BRIDGE FESTIVAL - June 16, 2012 - Canoe Trip - Hog Roast
Web Link http://www.ironbridgefestival.com/id4.html
| Our huge cottonwood tree was struck by lightning four years ago. Each year portions have died up to this spring, 2012, when nothing was left alive. For safety reasons, it was necessary to have it taken down. | The old cottonwood tree was 6'4" in diameter (18' 10" around), was over 100' tall, and was well over 100 years old. |
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Historic Landmarks
Tour
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Book signing by local
author Joe Krom
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June 20, 2009 |
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
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Mill volunteers honored the founders
of the Stockdal Mill Foundation with a plaque.
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Susanne & Dwight Fouts
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Plaque unveiled October 2007
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Roann Covered Bridge Festival Mill Events
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* * * * * 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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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.
| 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. | ![]() |
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CORNMEAL PROCESSING
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Big turn-out for tours.
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One of the volunteer tour guides.
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| A Saturday tour group views water rushing in the race. |
We are a kid friendly place !
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