Marsh Mills, also known as Haley's Mill or Spielman Mill, is a historic home located at

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, Washington County,

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. It is a -story, three-

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-wide

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house. The structure was built about 1850 as a mill, then converted to a

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in the 1880s. Traces of the millrace are still visible where it exits the south end of the building and passes beneath the road. Also on the property is an

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–style frame house which may incorporate remnants of the original log house which served as the original miller's dwelling. Marsh Mills was listed on the

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in 1996.

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*, including photo from 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1850 Houses in Washington County, Maryland Grinding mills in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maryland Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland {{WashingtonCountyMD-NRHP-stub