Our Ohio - Bear's Mill
Built in 1849, Bear's Mill ground flour and cornmeal for the Union Army during the Civil War. Today it's one of the last water powered mills still operating in Ohio. We travel to Greenville to talk with the people dedicated to keeping this historical gem a vibrant piece of living history. Our Ohio is ThinkTV's weekly series showcasing the lifestyles, heritage and culture of the Buckeye state.
Bears Mill Built in 1848 Darke County Ohio 2017
Bear's Mill site was established in 1832 when Major George Adams built a sawmill and subsequently a corn cracker mill. The present 3 1/2-story mill was built in 1848 by Moses and Manning Hart. The final completion of the building was done by Gabriel Baer, the new owner and an accomplished miller from Pennsylvania. The mill presently carries Gabriel Baer's name but somewhere the vowels were inverted and today the mill is known as BEAR'S MILL.
One of the few functioning gristmills left in Ohio, Bear's Mill and the surrounding mill grounds are exquisitely maintained and graciously shared with the public. Privately owned and operated, Bear's Mill is water-powered with two turbines located under the mill's first floor. Measuring 44 and 30.5, the turbines receive water from the Greenville Creek. About 1/2 mile upstream there is a large concrete dam that creates a huge, beautiful millpond in the stream. Water from the millpond is channeled into a millrace that parallels Greenville Creek to the mill. Greenville Creek creates a 9' head of water at the mill. The water drops into and through the turbines and exits via a tailrace on the opposite side of the mill back into Greenville Creek. The 30.5 turbine has the date of 1862 cast in the crown plate. Both turbines provide 65 horsepower.
The mill grounds are maintained so visitors can walk between the millrace and creek to see the dam and the sluice gate that maintains the water flow into the millrace.
Bear's Mill building is nothing less than spectacular. The exterior is covered with the original lap siding that Gabriel Baer put on the mill in 1849! Made from American Black Walnut, the siding adds a provocative nature to the old mill. The structure has an extremely textured appearance. The weathered, charcoal-gray siding, the small 6 over 6 double-hung sash windows, and the grain handling doors on all four levels, create a delightful experience.
The interior of the mill is equally dramatic. The entire 3 1/2 floors are accessible to the public. It is full of antique milling equipment. The first floor has a line shaft that transfers the power from the turbines up to the three sets of French buhrstones and to the rest of the mill. The first floor also holds a generator that powers the lights for the mill store. The second floor is where the milling, sacking and barreling are accomplished. The original three sets of French buhrstones that were placed here in 1850 have been maintained and are still grinding today. There were five roller mills installed in 1887. Three of them are still found in the mill. Storage bins, a flour purifier, power transfer machinery (belts, pulleys, and gears), and sifting equipment are found on the third floor. The loft has the corn screener, scourers, aspirator and top line shaft. The winch hauls the grain up to the loft and is powered by the turbines. The winch is fully functioning and lifts the grain from the ground outside to the third-story loft with ease. All of the antique machinery at Bear's Mill, whether it is functioning or on display as a museum piece, is excellently preserved. Bear's Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The mill store, on the first floor, sells yellow cornmeal, whole-wheat cake flour, unbleached white cake flour, buckwheat flour, rye flour, bran, and pancake mixes. Bear's Mill Pottery is produced by Julie Clark. Additionally, various types of art are on display in the Gallery area throughout the season.
Now owned and managed by the Friends of Bear's Mill.
6450Arcanum-Bear's Mill Road
Greenville, OH 45331
A visit to Bear's Mill
This grist mill was built in 1849 by Gabriel Baer. It's still operating and is open for tours. Located in Darke County east of Greenville there's plenty to do and see in the area. Check out bearsmill.com for more information. Video recorded August 2011.
Ohio Ghost Town Exploration Co. - Bears Mill, OH (Darke County) - Greenville Creek & Canal
A small dam & waterfall at Greenville Creek that feeds water to Bear's Mill.
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Discover Darke County, Ohio
Discover a land where the legends are as rich as the soil: Darke County, Ohio, situated on the Indiana / Ohio border. Delve into an interactive, culinary adventure at the KitchenAid® Experience Center and Stand Mixer Factory. Step back in time to uncover fascinating legends about famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley and the Treaty of GreeneVille. Unique shopping, winery tours, racing and golf... get away to Darke County and create the stories youll tell again and again. DiscoverOurLegends.com
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Just a quick clip of our day in Greenville, OH
A short video (all my camera batteries were dead) of me, Taylor and my parents on their anniversary. We visited Bear's Mill in Greenville Ohio first. 2nd part of the video is from Greenville Falls State Scenic River Area near Covington Ohio.
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Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Darke County, Ohio, United States, located in southwestern Ohio about 33 miles northwest of Dayton. The population was 13,227 at the 2010 census.
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Our Ohio - Great Darke County Fair
The Darke County Fair in Greenville has a reputation as being one of the finest county fairs in America. We visit the fair on its 150th anniversary to see what makes it such a special experience.
Darke County is Ohio's largest agricultural producing county, according to 2002 statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Darke County farmers produced $304.2 million in agricultural goods. Darke County is the No. 1 producer of corn and soybeans in the state and ranks second in hog production. Our Ohio is ThinkTV's weekly series showcasing the lifestyles, heritage and culture of the Buckeye state.
Hockings Hills ( Old Man Cave )
Hocking Hills Attractions Conkles Hollow, a state nature preserve, features scenic geologic formations and rare and unique plants. It is located off State Route 374, open during daylight hours only The Hocking Valley offers a variety of points of interest for visitors. Local attractions include craft and antique shops, museums, canoeing, horse back riding, a scenic railway, hiking trails and scenic drives Adena State Memorial, the restored home of Thomas Worthington is one of The Ohio Historical Society's premier sites. It includes Worthington's newly-restored 1807 mansion and a 13,000 square foot Museum/Visitor Center
For more information visit:
Hocking Hills Tourism Association website or call 800-HOCKING or 740-385-6836
Logan-Hocking Chamber of Commerce website
Ohio Tourism Division website or call 800-BUCKEYE (800-282-5393)
Nature of the Area
The natural history of this region is as fascinating as the caves are beautiful • Here, in these sandstones and shales, one can read Ohio's history from the rocks • The scenic features of the six areas of the Hocking Hills State Park complex are carved in the Blackhand sandstone • This bedrock was deposited more than 350 million years ago as a delta in the warm shallow sea which covered Ohio at that time • Subsequent millions of years of uplift and stream erosion created the awesome beauty seen today
The sandstone varies in composition and hardness from softer, loosely cemented middle zone to harder top and bottom layers • The recess caves at Ash Cave, Old Man's Cave and Cantwell Cliffs are all carved in the softer middle zone • Weathering and erosion widened cracks found in the middle layer of sandstone at the Rock House to create that unusual formation
Other features of the rock include cross-bedding, honeycomb weathering and slump blocks • The first is noticeable as diagonal lines in the rock intersecting horizontal ones • It is actually the cross section of an ancient sand bar in the delta and was caused by changing ocean currents • Honeycomb weathering looks like the small holes in a beehive comb • They are formed by differential weathering which comes about when water, moving down through the permeable sandstone, washes out small pockets of loosely cemented sand grains • Finally, the huge slump blocks of rock littering the streams tumble from near by cliffs when cracks widen to the extent that the block is no longer supported by the main cliff
Although the glaciers never reached the park areas, their influence is still seen here in the form of the vegetation growing in the gorges • The glaciers changed the climate of all Ohio to a moist, cool environment. Upon their retreat, this condition persisted only in a few places such as the deep gorges of Hocking County • Therefore, the towering eastern hemlocks, the Canada yew and the yellow and black birch tell of a cool period 10,000 years ago
History of the Area
The hollows and caves of the park complex have long attracted the peoples of Ohio • Evidence of the ancient Adena culture illustrates man first inhabited the recesses more than 7,000 years ago
In the mid 1700's several Indian tribes traveled through or lived here including the Wyandot, Delaware and Shawnee • Their name for the river from which the park gets its name was Hockhocking of bottle river • The name comes from the bottle-shaped valley of the Hocking River whose formation is due to its one-time blockage by glacial ice
After the Greenville Treaty of 1795, numerous white settlers moved into the region and Hocking County was organized in 1818 • The area around the parks began to develop in 1835 when a powder mill was built near Rock House and a grist mill was constructed at Cedar Falls
The cave areas were well-known as scenic attractions by 1870 • In 1924, the first land purchase by the state was made to preserve the scenic features • This first parcel of 146 acres included Old Man's Cave • Subsequent purchases built acreage while the areas existed under the Department of Forestry as State Forest Parks • The Department of Natural Resources was created in 1949 and the new Division of Parks assumed control of the Hocking Hills State Park complex, which today includes the six park areas • A dining lodge and cottages were opened in 1972 • These cottages, together with a campground, provide overnight facilities in one of the most beautiful areas of our state
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Black Bear Invades Wayne County, Ohio. Doylestown & Wooster.
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Greenville Falls Ohio
Flooded Greenville Falls near Greenville and Covington Ohio. Shot with Ghost Drone and GoPro camera. All local, state and federal laws were followed during this shoot.