AREA HISTORY:  Emig’s Mills, Dover Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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EMIG’S MILLS – Page 680

For more than three-fourths of a century one of the old-time houses of public 
entertainment was kept at this place, first by Derrick Updegraff, who “took up” 
the land in 1745.  A store has been kept here for many years, and is now owned by 
Henry Emig.  Jacob Emig purchased the mill site in 1831, of Jacob Frick, who 
bought it of Adam Speck in 1813.  Tempest Tucker was the owner of the property 
for many years before this time.  The mill originated in colonial times.  Martin 
Emig is the present owner.  The covered wooden bridge across the Conewago at this 
place, was built in 1848, by John Finley.  By a special act of the legislature of 
Pennsylvania, the Conewago is a public highway as far up as the mouth of the 
Bermudian.  The picturesque point formed by the confluence of the Conewago and 
Bermudian, is familiarly known as the “picket.”