  Left to Right: Elizabeth Hughes, Director of Maryland Historical Trust; Robert S. McCord, Secretary of Maryland Department of
Planning; Jane Sewell, Executive Director, Union Mills Homestead
Foundation, Inc.; Wendi Peters, Special Secretary for Smart Growth
Union Mills Accepts $96,000 State Preservation Grant
Westminster, MD, Wednesday,
July 18, 2018 – Yesterday, the Union Mills Homestead Foundation and Executive Director
Jane Sewell accepted a $96,000 Historic Preservation Capital Grant from the
Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) for the Shriver Grist Mill flume rehabilitation
project. The grist mill is nationally significant as a working Oliver Evans
mill. The grist mill was the centerpiece of the crossroads early industrial
complex at the site and is representative of mills that spearheaded the
industrial revolution.
MHT
received more than 70 applications and awarded $600,000 between seven awardees.
A
press release from Governor Larry Hogan’s office states that “for the first
time in nearly a decade, Governor Hogan restored funding for the Historic
Preservation Capital Grant Program, which assists bricks-and-mortar historic
preservation projects.”
“I
am thrilled and extremely grateful to receive this grant from Governor Hogan’s
Maryland Historical Trust on behalf of the Union Mills Homestead,” said
Executive Director Jane Sewell, “We receive tremendous support from Carroll
County and this project will ensure the long-term preservation of this unique
historic resource and will advance the public’s understating of Maryland’s
significant industrial heritage.”
The
Union Mills Homestead is owned by Carroll County Government and operated by the
Union Mills Homestead Foundation, Inc. under a long-term lease as a museum of
early American industry and culture.
The
Shriver Grist Mill flume rehabilitation project is part of a larger project
involving a multi-phased rehabilitation of all the wooden portion of the mill
drivetrain that are in contact with the waters of the millrace. Carroll County
made a substantial commitment to the larger rehabilitation project in its
capital budget. The flume is the wooden frame that delivers water from the mill
race to the mill’s waterwheel, which in turn powers the interior workings of
the mill. The current flume is reaching the end of its useful life and requires
repair work in order to keep the mill operational.
Carroll
County is proud of the restoration of the Shriver Grist Mill, which required
detailed historic research as to the site’s history as well as millwrighting
techniques of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The restoration
of the mill’s wooden drivetrain in the 1980’s was headed by English engineer
and millwright Derek Ogden, and is recognized as one of the finest and most
accurate restorations of its kind.
For additional information, contact:
Chris Winebrenner
410-386-2043
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About Union Mills Homestead
The Union Mills Homestead, the Shriver family homestead for six generations, is located in Union Mills, Maryland, about 17 miles south of Gettysburg, PA. The Homestead is now a museum of American culture, operated by the Union Mills Homestead Foundation, a non-profit foundation with all proceeds dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Union Mills Homestead Complex.
www.unionmills.org
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