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Dellinger Mill

Buildings and structures in Mitchell County, North CarolinaGrinding mills in North CarolinaGrinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in North CarolinaIndustrial buildings completed in 1941National Register of Historic Places in Mitchell County, North Carolina
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Dellinger Mill, NC
Dellinger Mill, NC

Dellinger Mill is a historic grist mill located near Hawk, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1901–1903, and is a small unpainted rectangular frame building. It measures 18 feet by 14 feet, 6 inches, and is sheathed in chestnut boards and weatherboard. It has a 23 feet in diameter water wheel that was rebuilt in the 1940s. Other contributing resources are an apple house (c. 1901–1903) and the mill site. The mill operated until 1955 and was restored after 1997. It is the last water powered/stone ground grist mill of its kind left in the state of North Carolina.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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Cane Creek Road
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North Carolina, United States
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Penland, North Carolina
Penland, North Carolina

Penland is an unincorporated community in the Snow Creek Township of Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. Penland is 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west-northwest of Spruce Pine. Approximately 200 year-round residents live in the community, the center of which is the Penland Road bridge crossing the North Toe River and CSX railroad line. The community is located on the northern edge of western North Carolina's Black Mountains and is bisected by the North Toe River, a tributary of the Cane and Nolichucky rivers. The Penland Post Office and General Store with ZIP code 28765, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its significance as the longest continuously operating post office in the area. Also listed in the National Register of Historic Places are the Penland School Historic District Conley Ridge Cemetery and Beacon Church and the Henry Willis House.The community is named for Robert Penland, a wealthy local businessman who in the 1850s operated an inn for travelers. Penland School of Crafts, established in the early 1920s, is the largest and oldest professional crafts school in the United States. The school offers courses in all of the major craft media and many fine arts fields, bringing thousands of students and prominent instructors together every year. Nine of North Carolina's seventeen Living Treasures live within a five-mile radius of Penland. Conley Ridge Cemetery and Beacon Church are in a Historic District and on the National Register of Historic Places. Beacon Church is recognized for its architecture and Conley Ridge Cemetery for its association with 19th Century families significant to the Penland Community and to the development of schools in the area, including Penland School.