Corn Grinding Demonstrations
Historic Yates Mill County Park
Historic Yates Mill Pond County Park.
Saturday & Sunday, May 18th & 19th 10am-12pm; $5/Adult, $4/Senior (ages 60 & over), $3/Child (ages 7-16), Children ages 6 & under are free. Pre-registration is encouraged. Tours are not available between 12-1 pm and the last tour of the day begins at 3:40 pm. Tickets are available at the Mill.
Step back in time with our 19th-century costumed interpreters and watch the millstones at work grinding corn into meal. Tours are offered every 20 minutes beginning at 10 a.m. Reservations are encouraged. Tours are not available between noon–1 p.m., and the last tour of the day begins at 3:40 p.m. Tickets are available in the Mill Yard on the day of the tours. Most appropriate for ages 7 & up.
While corn-grinding tours are going on, the nonprofit group Yates Mill Associates (www.yatesmill.org) is on site in the mill yard with stone-ground cornmeal, mill merchandise and local handcrafts for sale, so please shop to support a good cause! 
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