Ivory Mills is a 14 acres (5.7 ha), historic grist mill complex

Complex

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 located at White Hall

White Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland

White Hall is an unincorporated community which stradles Baltimore County and Harford County, Maryland, United States. The town's post office is on the NCR Trail and the Gunpowder River. Ivory Mills was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997....

, Harford County

Harford County, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

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. It consists of six standing 19th century frame

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

 buildings and structures: mill, miller's house, barn, corncrib, carriage house, and chicken house. The property

Property

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 also includes the ruins of a stone

STONe

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 spring house

Spring house

A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building used for refrigeration once commonly found in rural areas before the advent of electric refrigeration. It is usually a one-room building constructed over the source of a spring. The water of the spring maintains a constant cool temperature...

, and the stone abutments of a frame, Federal

Federal architecture

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-era covered bridge

Covered bridge

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. The focus of the complex is the three-story stone and frame mill building built about 1818. The ground story is constructed of coursed stone rubble and the upper stories are clapboard

Clapboard (architecture)

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. The family first started a mill on this site in 1781, and this mill ceased functioning in the 1920s.

Ivory Mills was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1997.

External links

• Ivory Mills, Harford County, including photo from 1996, Maryland Historical Trust website