Stibbs Mill

Stibbs Mill

Trading name	Mill Run
Type	Grist Mills
Industry	Manufacturing
Fate	Dissolved
Founded	Wooster, Ohio (1809 (1809))
Founder(s)	Joseph Stibbs
Headquarters	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	Located along the woods on the west edge of N. Bauer Rd.; Little Apple Creek crossed down where old Lincoln Way used to run which is now Sylvan Rd. About 1 miles east of Wooster at the foot of the hill at the end of Pittsburgh Avenue.
Key people	Joseph Stibbs

First grinding mill in Wooster, Ohio and Wayne County. It was also Wooster's first major disaster.

Locations

• 0000 Unknown St., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Timeline

• 1809 - Established by Joseph Stibbs
• Explosion
  • Michael Switzer, Store manager was weighing out powder from an 18-pound keg
  • "At the same time several Native Americans were standing close smoking pipes filled with a mixture of tobacco, sumac leaves and kinnikinnick (yellow will bark}."
  • "Soon a puff of wind blew a spark from a pipe into the exposed powder causing a huge explosion."
  • "The mill was blown apart and Switzer was killed. The others suffered injuries."