AREA HISTORY:  Mills of Paradise 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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MILLS – Page 686

One of the old landmarks of Paradise Township is the place known as Jacobs Mills 
in the upper end of the township, near the Adams County border.  The land was 
originally taken up by a land warrant issued to George Jacobs in 1750.  Soon 
after this date a mill was erected which has, ever since that event, been owned 
by a lineal descendant of the original settler.  At present it is owned by Amos 
Jacobs, who has a wool carding-mill, grist-mill and saw-mill.  They are run by 
water and steam.  The old stone mansion near by was erected in 1780.  
Hollinger’s Mill and Noel’s Mill on Beaver Creek have long existed.  Masemer’s 
Mill, on the Beaver Creek and Berlin Road is a very old mill site.  The stone 
building now standing, was erected in the year 1794 by Abraham Swigert and was 
long known as the “Beaver Creek Mill.”  The mason who constructed it, John 
Nagle, left his name and the date of erection on a large stone table in the west 
end of the mill.  The large bridge across the Conewago near here was taken away 
by the flood of 1884, as well as the bridge over the Beaver Creek.  Handsome 
iron bridges have taken their place by authority of the county commissioners.