Plan Your Visit
The Mill at Anselma has closed for the winter.
We look forward to your visit in the spring!
Come and enjoy a day at The Mill at Anselma. The Mill has a Visitor Center that is equipped with restrooms and a Gift Shop full of books, local products, and our fabulous stone-ground flour and cornmeal. All proceeds from the sale of our flour support The Mill’s ongoing programs and preservation. Outside of the Visitors’ Center, an outdoor picnic area is available for your enjoyment. Our trained staff offer guided tours of The Mill and the surrounding landscape whenever you arrive. Once a month we also have a milling demonstration and historic trades and crafts men and women who will show you how things were made in earlier times.
The Mill is wheelchair accessible, but because of the historic nature of The Mill’s landscape, there are areas with difficult terrain. Please call in advance for further information.
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$5 Adults
$4 Seniors (60+)
$3 Children (4-17)
Active Military, Members, and Children under 4 get in FREE!
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Directions: The Mill at Anselma is located on Rt. 401 (Conestoga Road),
½ mile west of Rt. 113 in Chester Springs.
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From I-76: Take Rt. 202 South to Rt. 401 West. Follow Rt. 401 West for five miles. Cross over Rt. 113 and continue ½ mile. The Mill’s entrance is on your left.
From PA Turnpike (I-276): Downingtown Exit: Take Rt. 100 South for approximately one mile to Rt. 113 North. Follow Rt. 113 North and turn left onto Rt. 401 West. Follow for ½ mile. The Mill’s entrance is on your left.
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Schedule of Events
 Milling Demonstrations and Demonstration Day activities run continuously from 10am – 4pm. This year we will have two festival weekends - May 14-15 and October 15 and 16. The festivals will be open on Saturday from 10am-4pm and on Sunday from 1pm-4pm.
We are planning our events for 2012 – check back for more updates!
Group Tours
The Mill at Anselma strives to provide visitors of all ages with a fun, hands-on educational experience. This c. 1747 grist mill has witnessed the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and many other historical highs and lows in its 250+ years. We have chosen to represent the site as it evolved over the years, rather than restore it to one particular period, to give visitors a better understanding of change over time. Please click here for “General Guidelines for Group Tours.”
Special Programs
We offer many opportunities for students and groups to explore the past beyond our traditional site tours. We encourage our visitors to experience the Mill through taste, touch, sight, smell and sound, and offer a variety of programs that suitable for history, economics, science and English curricula.
"Pancakes, Pancakes” Program
Grades Pre-K - 4
This program gives students a basic understanding of where food—in this case flour and cornmeal—comes from. Students enjoy a tour of the grist mill, where they can help the miller shell corn, grind the grains, and sift the flour. Then the students help Mill staff bake cornbread with the newly ground cornmeal, after a reading from the Eric Carle book “Pancakes, Pancakes,” which tells the story of how the food we eat every day makes the journey from the field to the table. This program is best experienced as a milling tour.
“Simple Machines” Program
Grades K - 7
Our simple machines program begins with a workshop on the identification of simple machines (levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges and wheel-and-axle), and their household uses. A tour of the Mill follows, in which students will be given the opportunity to look for these same simple machines in the grist mill, and learn how they work together to accomplish the task of milling flour. This tour is available in both milling and non-milling versions.
“Run of the Mill” Program
Grades 1 - 8
In this program, students will learn a brief history of agriculture in Chester County, and how technological advances like railroads affected farming in this area. Students will identify different kinds of grains, including wheat, corn, rye and barley, and will learn where they are grown and used today. They will then have the opportunity to help Mill staff harvest, thresh and winnow wheat, and a tour of the grist mill will follow. This tour is available in both milling and non-milling versions.
More Information
If your school or group are interested in more information regarding The Mill’s educational programs, please call (610) 827-1906 or email info@anselmamill.org. The Mill at Anselma offers both milling and non-milling tours. A milling tour, in which the grist mill is running and producing cornmeal, requires an additional $50.00 to cover the cost of grain. The per-person admission fee for any specially-arranged group tour, regardless of age, is $4.00. If you have any questions about whether a milling or non-milling tour is best for you, please call our office and we would be happy to help.
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