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Clear Spring Mill
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Clear Spring Mill is located in Pennsylvania
Clear Spring Mill
Location in Pennsylvania
Clear Spring Mill is located in the United States
Clear Spring Mill
Location in the United States
Location Western corner of the junction of Capitol Hill and Clear Spring Roads, south of Dillsburg, Franklin Township, Pennsylvania
Area 5.4 acres (2.2 ha)
Built 1886
Architectural style Late Victorian
NRHP reference No. 96001199
Added to NRHP November 4, 1996

Clear Spring Mill is a historic mill complex located at Franklin Township, York County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes the grist mill, sawmill, and corn crib. The grist mill was built in 1886, and is a 2 1/2-story, heavy timber frame building on a banked sandstone foundation. It has a gambrel roof and three interior levels. The sawmill was built about 1809, and is a one-story timber frame building on a foundation of banked stone, stone piers, and wood posts. It measures 12 feet deep by 40 feet wide, with a rear porch extension. The corncrib was built about 1930.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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