Grist Mill
Congress to supply f lour to General Washington’s troops. Casey says that when the mill was built, the small shallow woodl a nd s t r e a m t h at r u n s ne x t to the mill was a navigable body of water. Bateaus were loaded with 200-pound wooden barrels of f lour and f loated downstream to Emerson’s Landing, now Wye Landing, where they were loaded onto waiting sailing ships. The Wye Mill is a local landmark in more ways than one. In 1706, Queen Anne’s County was cut out of Kent and Talbot counties and the mill is the remaining mark of
portance to the community and the growth of the nation. The ownership of the mill has changed hands numerous times through the ages, according to a time line documented by mill volunteers. During the colonial times the Bennett and Lloyd families, who were some of the largest landowners of the era, owned it. Frequently, the mill was leased out to master millers. By 1778, the Lloyds’ plantation manager, William Hemsley, took ow nership of the mill and contracted with the Continental
The Old Wye Mill and waterwheel in Wye Mills, MD. 30