The first mill on the site was built about the time of the French and Indian War by Ulrich Conrad Sr., who came as a pioneer settler from Switzerland in 1753.

According to Elsie Byrd Boggs's History of Franklin, Conrad supplied the soldiers in Lord Dunmore's War with flour and meal in 1774.

The 1845 mill is the present four-story building, its large hand-hewn beams supported by a thick stone foundation.

It originally had the familiar overshot mill wheel, but it was replaced by a more efficient underwater turbine in the early 20th century.

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