Union Mills Homestead Historic District

Union Mills Homestead Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
in 1971
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Location	Jct. of U.S. 140 and Deep Run Rd., Westminster, Maryland
Coordinates	39°40′14″N 77°0′58″W / 39.67056°N 77.01611°W / 39.67056; -77.01611
Area	279 acres (113 ha)
Built by	Shriver, Andrew; Schriver, David
NRHP reference No.	71000371[1]
Added to NRHP	January 25, 1971

Union Mills Homestead Historic District is a national

Union Mills was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.^[1]

The Union Mills Homestead was home to the Shriver family for 6 generations. It is currently a historic landmark located near Westminster, Maryland, about 17 miles south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 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.

The building of the Shriver homestead

The following passage is excerpted from "Union Mills: The Shriver Homestead Since 1797" by Frederic Shriver Klein:

The Shriver brothers bought a large tract of land along Big Pipe Creek, about seven miles north of

saw mill. On March 13, Jacob Keefer and John Eckert contracted "to mould and burn a kiln of brick" for the mill, "providing 100,000 brick or more, to be paid for at the rate of one French crown for every thousand brick." The brick kiln was constructed near the creek, known in previous years as Pipeclay Creek.
The house had its origin on January 26 of the same year, when a contract was made with Henry Kohlstock of York County, Pennsylvania

, for building a small double house as a residence for the two brothers. Kohlstock, a joiner, agreed "to finish two small houses 14 by 17 feet each, to be connected by a porch and passage about 10 feet wide." Each house had one upper and one lower room, with a connecting center hallway and a small porch in front, twelve by eight feet. The carpenter's bill for labor gives an interesting idea of costs in 1797:

• Lower floors for small house 5 dols.
• Upper floor, rough 3 dols.
• Windows, casing, frames and sash 2 dols. each
• Doors, casings, etc. 2 dols.each
• Weatherboarding, stairs, porch, cornice seats, washboards 3 dols.
• Painting 6 dols.

The total labor costs for the house came to eighty-six dollars!" [3]

References

External links

• Union Mills Homestead Historic District, Carroll County, including photo from 2002, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Boundary Map of the Union Mills Homestead Historic District, Carroll County, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Union Mills Homestead
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. md-170, "Bollman Truss Bridge, Union Mills Homestead Park, 3311 Littlestown Pike, Westminster, Carroll County, MD", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page