Saint Michaels Mill (also known as Quillens Mill) is a

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

in Saint Michaels, Talbot County,

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first built in 1890 and expanded several times until the 1930s. Its chief product was "Just Right

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". It is located at 100 Chew Avenue. The building architect is Arthur K. Easter. The mill is a good example of 19th century industrial architecture on

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. The milling equipment is original to the structure, mostly intact and still operative. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historical Places in 1982.

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*, including photo dated 1982, at Maryland Historical Trust Buildings and structures in Talbot County, Maryland Industrial buildings completed in 1890 Saint Michaels, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland {{TalbotCountyMD-NRHP-stub