John Work House and Mill Site is a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana just outside Charlestown, owned by the Lincoln Heritage Council, (BSA), as part of the Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation.

In 2010, part of the Tunnel Mill camp was leased to a private company for the purpose of restoring the Historic John Work House for use as a living history center.

In order to prevent vandalism and amateur ghost hunters from further damaging the building, security guards patrol the property each night.

Spotting where Fourteen Mile Creek made a S-curve around a limestone ridge and then dropped drastically, five miles (8 km) upcreek from the Ohio River, he decided to create a tunnel through a spur of a hill to act as a mill race, which would mean a better source of water to power his mill.

The mill was ideally situated by being a day's ride from New Albany and Madison, the second and third largest cities in Indiana at the time, and for being so close to Ohio River landings.

[7] After Work's death on February 1, 1832,[2] the mill would pass through the hands of several owners, and would change with the times.

No one knows if it was started by a discarded cigarette, by one of the swimmers, or by the last owner, Henry Murphy, who reportedly had a history of his properties burning.

A cemetery containing the plots of John Work, his wife Sarah Jackson, and other Clark County pioneers is located on the property.

[2] In 1927 Henry Murphy decided he wanted to sell the 142 acres (0.57 km2) of land he held around the burnt mill.

The newly formed Boy Scout Council, the George Rogers Clark Council (formed by Scouts of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and Washington counties) was seeking an area for a camp.

After police arrived on the scene to get information about the drunk from Campbell, they found Caldwell wandering on Ind-62.

[15] Today the property includes a cabin village, a swimming pool, and a dining hall built in 2000.

[17] The restoration of the house was budgeted to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and was deemed too expensive for the Lincoln Heritage Council.

[3] In 2010, the site was added to the 10 Most Endangered List of Indiana Landmarks, due to the constant vandalism.

[18] Earlier in the year, Taylor Rose Historical Outfitters, a private company that specializes in the historical reenactment supplies, contracted with Lincoln Heritage Council to restore and preserve the John Work House, leasing the house for a $1 a year.

[19] The eventual plan is for the house to become an educational living history center as well as a workshop and storefront for the company's historically focused business operations.

Future plans include classes, living history events and a research library, as well as building a mill similar to the one Work had built.