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Ivory Mills

Buildings and structures in Harford County, MarylandGrinding mills in MarylandGrinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in MarylandHarford County, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubsIndustrial buildings completed in 1781
National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland
IVORY MILLS, HARFORD COUNTY
IVORY MILLS, HARFORD COUNTY

Ivory Mills is a 14-acre (5.7 ha), historic grist mill complex located at White Hall, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It consists of six standing 19th century frame buildings and structures: mill, miller's house, barn, corn crib, carriage house, and chicken house. The property also includes the ruins of a stone spring house, and the stone abutments of a frame, Federal-era covered bridge. The focus of the complex is the three-story stone and frame mill building built circa 1818. The ground story is constructed of coursed stone rubble, and the upper stories from clapboard. The family first started a mill on this site in 1781; this particular mill ceased production in the 1920s.Ivory Mills was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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Harford Creamery Road

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