Whitaker's Mill Historic District is a national

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near Joppa,

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. It includes three early- to mid-19th-century buildings: the -story rubble stone Whitaker's Mill built in 1851, the -story rubble stone miller's house, and the log-and-frame Magness House, begun about 1800 as the miller's house for the first mill on the site. The district also includes an iron

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known as Harford County Bridge No. 51, constructed in 1878, and the oldest such span in the county. The

grist mill 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 ...

closed operations about 1900. It was added to the

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in 1990.

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*, including photo dated 1989, at Maryland Historical Trust Historic districts in Harford County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Federal architecture in Maryland Greek Revival architecture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland {{HarfordCountyMD-NRHP-stub