The Rock Run Mill was built in 1794 by John Stump, a prosperous business man who owned several mills in Harford, Cecil, and Baltimore Counties in Maryland. The original Fitz Water Wheel measured thirty-two feet in diameter, two and one half feet wide with eighty-four buckets, it weighed about 12 tons. The current wheel, a large replica waterwheel of the original, about 18 inches wide and 18 feet in diameter and weighs 24,000 pounds but, it only takes 2 pounds of force to turn it, grinding grain using the French ‘buhrstones’.
The Mill is located within the Susquehanna State Park on Rock Run Road off of Stafford Road just north of Havre de Grace, MD. The three story mill, full of 19th century mill equipment and farming displays, is fully operational, being operated during the summer months in conjunction with visitor traffic through the mill displays.
I shot this during a very wet April 4th, 2010 trip which included this Mill along with the Garvine Mill up in York County, PA. Shot as seven RAW frames bracketed at .7 stop variance and processed into an HDR and tone mapped with the new Photomatix Pro 4.0 beta release.
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