Pine Creek Grist Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and exhibits and interprets the 19th century milling industry.

Heritage Day was similar to past years with lots of presenters doing everything from tatting, helping kids saw logs, taking old time photos, canoeing on the mill pond and many other activities, plus old time music to listen to, antique cars to look at, a blacksmith to talk about smithing, etc. Heritage Day is a great family day.

Ghost of Pine Creek is a special event where the Friends of the Mill host a Halloween themed event with “ghosts.” Our ghost, however, are not scary but are actually people dressed up in period costumes to rep-resent people (ghosts) from 150 years ago. The ghost then give short presentations on what it was like to live 150 years ago. This year’s Ghost event had a harvest theme with an emphasis on how the pioneers harvested, cooked and stored the harvest in the 1850’s.

The mission of the Friends of the Pine Creek Grist Mill is to restore, preserve and interpret the Pine Creek Grist Mill. Much of the machinery has been restored and the old mill is a great historic site, grinding grain into flour as it was done 160 years ago. The Friends of the Mill interpretive program served thousands of people in 2011. Our visitation during the summer was not a record number, mostly because of the hot weather that closed the mill for ten days and also the early closing in October, but we had thousands of people go through the mill. In addition we served almost a thousand school students and hopefully increased their under-standing of our pioneer heritage. The two big special events were well attended.