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NEWS
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2025
Opening Day for 2025 is May 10
We will be open for tours of our operating historic flour mill each Saturday
from Noon to 4:00
from May 10 until mid-October.
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CELEBRATE
WITH US Saturday June 7,
2025 1100 – 5:00 After
being closed during 2024 for construction, |
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PLEASE DONATE |
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Our non-profit group the STOCKDALE MILL FOUNDATION has been awarded a grant from the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY in the amount of $20,000 ! This amount will be applied to our FRAME & FOOTING PROJECT currently underway for critical restoration of the old mill's sub-basement and foundation structure. Thank you CFWC and all who support them. |
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As of March 15, 2025 we have raised $58,984 towards this $60,000 project. |
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In order for the WE NEED YOUR HELP assisting with tours on Saturdays. Please email
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Many of the projects accomplished by our
preservation/maintenance volunteer crew are hidden away and go unnoticed. |
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2020 - 2021 - & 2022 have brought a huge increase in the number of canoes and kayaks launching at the Stockdale Mill. Family fun on the Eel River was rediscovered during the pandemic. |
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Doug &
Alice Campbell, North Manchester, donated their antique water turbine to the
Stockdale Mill. This large object originally produced water
power for the old Liberty Mills flour mill. |
John Dyson and Dale Abell
provided their time and heavy equipment to move the Liberty Mills turbine. |
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The turbine now resides at the
Stockdale Mill, further down the Eel River from Liberty Mills, where it will
be on display for close-up viewing by visitors. |
John Dyson with the Liberty
Mills turbine. |
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Maintenance,
restoration, landscaping, cleaning - all continue during our 2020 temporary
shut-down. |
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Ron McColley replaces the
windmill pump shaft. |
Roger Harman replaces
basement entrance flooring. |
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David
VanBuskirk and Mike Campbell adjust a turbine gear. |
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Joe Krom attaches stair
bracing. |
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Our volunteers continue with restoration each Tuesday, April through October. Here, our old Corn Crib gets it's concrete foundation renewed. |
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MILL ROOF REPLACEMENT COMPLETED The roof is on !!! The old leaking shingles were
removed, new plywood sheeting was laid down, and painted steel metal panels
and trim installed. All was completed during the first week of November. This
will keep the mill structure and milling machinery secure for a good long
time - what a relief.
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STOCKDALE
MILL DAM The Fish Ladder is in place, active, and being enjoyed by hundreds of fish. A fish bypass was installed at the Stockdale Mill Dam this summer. The first of its kind anywhere "fishway" is located outside the existing concrete south wing-wall of the dam. [dam buttress end opposite the mill] The innovative structure is the first of its kind installed anywhere in the U.S. The Stockdale Mill Foundation is partnering with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Dept. and the Manchester University Environmental Sciences Program. The fishway includes electronic sensors to monitor fish migration up and down the Eel River. Manchester University will conduct ongoing research into fish behavior. |
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Students from IU Kokomo
class on Indiana History braved the cold on our last regular tour day of the
season. |
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Gibbons
Family Hit & Miss Engines display during 2017 Covered Bridge Festival |
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Indiana Landmarks preservation group toured the
Stockdale Mill on April 27. Over 200 hardy members braved a cool wind to
visit the mill followed by dinner on the Roann Covered Bridge. |
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The Stockdale Mill Foundation received the 2nd place award from the Beacon Credit Union "Project Spotlight". Pictured with other winners is Ron McColley acceptng the prize on behalf of the Mill. THANK YOU to Beacon Credit Union an to all who voted! |
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NEWSLETTER:
Newsletter September 2008
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CELEBRATING
168 YEARS
"Sweet Sixteen (decades)"
1857 -2025
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