Come Mill Around
The Master Millers at Locke's Mill welcome everyone interested in old mills and fresh organic food to visit on the first and third Saturdays of the month, March through November. Come early and help set the runner stone on the bed stone. Pull the lever to open the millrace sluice and watch the massive waterwheel start turning. See how gears work and how clever millwrights use water and gravity to get more work done. Learn about different grains, taste freshly ground flour, and understand why organic, stone-milled flour may be old-fashioned, but is part of a local, healthy food system.
Locke's Mill Today
Grain Hopper
Truing the Millstones
Mill Stone showing high spots with dark paint
Certified Organic in 2017
Cleaned Whole Rye
Grain Sack with Miller's Knot
Organic Grain Batch Tags
Organic Rye in Hopper
Grain Scale
Water Mill Main Gear Train
Mill furniture: Damsel, Shoe, and Horse
Running runner-stone, damsel and horse
Grist (ground grain) coming out of spout
Power drive nut on bed-stone, runner stone at rest
Grinding Corn
Corn in Hopper
Great Spur or Pit Wheel
Water Wheel Hub and Arms
Outside again with wheel turning
Close up waterwheel arms
Lantern gear, pit wheel and tentering beam
Crane for lifting runner stone
Runner stone at rest
Bed stone drive gear (stone nut)
Bedstone
Mill furniture: Hopper, horse, and shoe adjustment
Crane lifting hole on runnner stone
Scale weight
Scale balance beam
Inside sifter-bolter
Tentering beam adjustment
Organic Rye coming into hopper
Water turning the 23' Fitz over-shot water wheel
Shoe adjustment
Milled Rye Grist
The Miller checks the grind
Tentering wheel
Sacks ready for market