Historic Hearns & Rawlings Flour Mill

Offering an Historic Property for Sale $325,000

Historic Name: Cannon & Ross Mill, Hearn Pond
Common Name: Hearn & Rawlins Flour Mill
Address: 1 Hearn Pond Road
Seaford, DE 19973

This offering has three Parcels: Parcel 1, 1.2 acres containing
the Mill and Warehouses, Tax Map (331-3-84)
Parcel 2, 1.16 acres across Rt. 13A from the mill
and is unimproved, Tax Map (331-4-10)
Parcel 3, .37 acres, improved by grain silos,
Tax Map (331-3-155)

This Mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May, 22, 1978.

The first mill on the site was the Cannon & Ross Mill about 1820. The mill burned to the ground in 1879. The current mill was purchased by Marcellus Hearn in 1885. The mill became known as Hearn’s Mill and Clear Brook became known as Hearn’s Pond. After the death of Marcellus Hearn (1916), the mill was owned and operated by his late son and daughter. At that time the mill was given its final and last name: Hearn’s and Rawlings Flour Mill.

The mill and one warehouse are frame buildings, sheathed in metal on brick footings. They stand on a dam, which impounds a brook, forming Hearn’s Pond, which is a branch of the Nanticoke River. After the fire (1879), the new mill was equipped with a set of rollers which replaced the grinding stone process for mixing flour. Because of bearing problems, however these rollers were again replaced again in 1930 with three Monarch Mill Sets of steel rollers which are in actual use today. The two overshot wheels were installed in 1912, and provided power, assisted by an occasional electric motor. The overshot wheels were deteriorated beyond repair and removed. The mill is now run by electric motors.

The mill needs some TLC but is working.

The earthen dam, rebuilt in 1912 and 2006 carries a road past the main entrance of the mill. There is access from RT. 13A and also from Hearn Pond Road.

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