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Detour Feed Mill
Carroll Co. | Maryland | USA | Early 1890's
Township: Middleburg District #10 | Watersource: Probably not water-pow.ered
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 10/10/2007
In 1898 this mill, owned by Calvin B. Anders and leased by J. Wright Barrick, had a fire that started in the roof, believed caused by a spark from an engine of the Western Maryland Railroad.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 10/10/2007
The building was comparatively new and damage was estimated at $10,000.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey digital copy of Thomas Photo-early 1900's
It was stated that this building replaced a mill destroyed by a fire several years earlier. The railroad station is probably the small structure with the sloped roof on the left side of the tracks.
Picture: Robert T. Kinsey 10/10/2007
The earlier mill might have been water-powered , as it could have had a headrace of about 100 feet from Big Pipe Creek to the mill, then a tailrace from the mill to Double Pipe Creek, a distance of about 600-700 feet.
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(Psalm 31:7 & 8 CEV)
Directions: The mill sits along the RR. tracks on Rocky Ridge Rd. in the village of Detour, Maryland on Circle Drive.
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