Showing posts with label Cowan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cowan. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2022

The Old Mill Creamery, Cowan Pa

The Old Mill Creamery, Cowan Pa

Located in the restored Gristmill, at the corner of Buffalo & Church Roads, outside of Lewisburg  in the village of  Cowan, Pa.
Address for your GPS: 6542 Buffalo RdMifflinburgPA 17844

The mill building is the 3rd or 4th building constructed on the site. The first two or three mills here were destroyed by fires, and this building, constructed somewhere around 1873,  was also gutted by a fire in 1942.   See more of the history of the old Cowan  Mill below.

Cowan, Union County Pa

 
Main Street Cowan Pa, with the Cowan Grist Mill visible.  The town was originally named "Guldy's Mill", for an earlier mill building on this site.  Later it was renamed Farmersville, and finally in 1886 when the village opened it's first post office, it was officially named Cowan.