This is a listing of water-powered grist mills located in the Kreutz Creek watershed in York County, Pennsylvania. Kreutz Creek begins in Windsor Township and flows northeast though Hellam Township where it joins the Susquehanna. Other variations on the name are “Grist”, “Grises”, and “Grices” Creek.
The mills are listed in order as the water flows.
Name | AKA | Disposition | Built | Type | Water Source |
Kindig | Foundation | c1850 | Feed, Flour | Kreutz Creek | |
Maish | Moser | Site | c1821 | Grist | Kreutz Creek |
Eli Kindig’s | Site | c1860 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek | |
Residence | 1904 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek | ||
Rider’s | Site | 1830 | Grist | Kreutz Creek | |
William Mundis | T. Crumling / Eli Emig | Ruins | 1856 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek |
Locust Grove Grist | Residence | c1770 | Flour, Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek | |
Stoner Distilllery | Site | c1856 | Distillery | Kreutz Creek | |
Hiestand | Hammacher | Site | c1803 | Grist, Cider | Stony Run |
Hauser | Stonybrook | Site | c1796 | Grist | Stony Run |
Crumling | Canoe | Site | 1891 | Grist | Canoe Run |
Sprenkle’s/Loucks/Hiestand | Venue | c1740 | Grist | Kreutz Creek | |
Sprenkle’s Lower | E. O. Sprenkle’s Mill/Strickler’s | Site | c1760 | Flour, Grist, Cider | Kreutz Creek |
Strickler’s/Deitz | Storage | 1878 | Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek | |
Henry Strickler’s | Wrightsville Light & Power | Site | 1790 | Grist, Saw | Kreutz Creek |