New Hope for the Jerusalem Mill

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NEW HOPE FOR THE JERUSALEM MILL

Jerusalem Mill, MD., Part II

By Terry L. Linton Regional Reporter

Old Mills News © ISSN 0276-3338

Publication of the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills Vol. XV, No 3, Whole Number 60, © Summer 1987 page 10

LINTON & BIRD CHRONICLES, Volume IV, Issue 3, Fall © 2009, ISSN 1941-3521

photos added inLINTON & BIRD CHRONICLES, Volume V, Issue 2, Summer © 2010, ISSN 1941-3521  

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The brush and trees were also removed from around these structures and the raceways by the Friends of Jerusalem Mill over the last three years. The Friends of Jerusalem Mill soon learned that because the, Jerusalem Mill Site Complex is part of the Gunpowder State Park, it is technically owned by the State of Maryland, and the Mill is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources. Also the Mill would be one of over 400 such historic structures in the State that are competing against each other for a small piece of the State's Capital Budget each year. The Friends realized that more local, support was needed in saving the Mill, so a continuous campaign was started to get more people interested in the fate of the Mill. This campaign is now showing very good results. Next, their lengthy struggle to win a piece of Maryland's State Budget began, with letter-after-letter, and meeting-after-meeting,, with local legislators in both Baltimore and Harford Counties, to show them that there is a lot of local interest and concern in saving the Mill. The next step, was to seek appropriations of public funds to restore the Jerusalem Mill from the State Legislators and get the funds passed the scrutiny of The Department of State Planning and of the Maryland General Assembly.

Above photo:north end of Jerusalem Mill basement level looking towards the south wheel pit behind wood plank wall. photo by © Terry Louis Linton in 1984

Above photo: The foundation of one of the two water wheels in the basement water wheel pit in Quaker master millwright Isaiah Linton’s Lee’s merchant water grist mill, later to be known as Jerusalem Mill. The mill located on Little Gunpowder Fall was completed in August 1772 in what was Baltimore County, now Hartford County Maryland. Photo taken in 1984 by ©Terry Louis Linton.

Above photo: view of basement wheel pit in North east stonewall tail race from Jerusalem Mill, in 1984, photo by ©Terry Louis Linton

Above photo taken in 1986 of main grinding level or ground level.......Below photo taken during reconstruction.

north east corner side of Jerusalem Mill.in 1984 photo ©Terry Louis Linton.

West wall of Isaiah Linton's Jerusalem Mill photo taken in 1984 by © Terry Louis Linton

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