Fought's Keystone Mill - Hughesville Pa

Foughts Keystone Flour Mill on Muncy Creek, at the corner of Race & Mill Streets in Hughesville:

[Still stands today]

The Keystone Mill in Hughesville, listed as "Ball's Mill"

Three mills have stood at this location.  The first was built in 1819 by Jacob Clayton.  "An article in an issue of the Hughesville Mial from 1861 said soldiers from Hughesville gathered at the mill for a meal before they left for the Civil War.  The mill burned down later that same year."

The mill was rebuilt on the same site, and that building burned down in 1912.

The last mill building was constructed in 1916.

A mill race, or hand dug canal, ran behind the building, the water being used to run the mill.  When the 1916 mill was built, turbines eliminated the need for the mill wheel.  the water turned the turbines, which turned the shafts.

In the 1940s, ice destroyed the mill dam.  In 1957 the race was closed, it no longer had enough water to run the mill al day.  The mill was then electrified, using equipment Samuel Foust purchased from a mill in Trout Run.

1979 Fire at the Mill on Railroad and Race Street

See more here - https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-hughesville-roller-mills.html

When the mill on Railroad and Race Street burnt to the ground in 1979, the Buckwheat operation was moved to this mill.

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When you say "Fought's Mill" around here, it can be VERY confusing.

Foughts Mill built  by Jacob Fought in 1771, on Buffalo Creek in Union County?

Foughts Mill built in 1912, burned down in 1979, in Hughesville?

Or Foughts Mill on Muncy Creek, at the corner of Race & Mill Streets in Hughesville?

Then, to add to the confusion, the mill on Race Street in Hughesville was once called Balls Mill - and of course there is also a town of Balls Mills, with a mill...