Old Mill Tavern and View Looking South

Old Mill Tavern and View Looking South

Strasburg (Va)

United States Highway 11

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Photograph taken in the overgrown parking lot of the Old Mill Tavern (located in the historic Spengler's Mill) on the southern edge of Strasburg and looking southwards down Route 11. The building is still there today.

The water-powered mill was built between 1797 and 1804, by the Spengler family, and was located close to the confluence of Cedar Spring Run and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. It was a working flour mill for many years.

During the 1920's and 1930's, it was operated by the Artz family and known as the Artz Mill.

It was converted into a well-known restaurant called "The Old Mill Tavern Restaurant" by the George Pappas family in 1938. The Old Mill was the place to go for dining, dancing and community celebrations under a number of different managers for nearly seventy years.

The Old Mill property was purchased by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles #4186, in 2017.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Undated

Historical information about the mill was compiled from public records.

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Spengler's Mill, or The Old Mill as it is also called, appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001210, 001212, 027290, and 027299.

027299

Glass Negative