Garrett Snuff Mill Explained

Garrett Snuff Mill
Location:Jct. Delaware Route 82 and Yorklyn Rd., Yorklyn, Delaware
Coordinates:39.8086°N -75.6739°W
Built:-1901
Added:May 22, 1978
Refnum:78000913

Garrett Snuff Mill, also known as the George W. Helme Company, is a historic snuff tobacco mill complex located at Yorklyn, New Castle County, Delaware. The complex includes 14 contributing buildings built between 1846 and 1901. The buildings are architecturally unified as most are built of brick, with the two earliest mills constructed of stone. The Garrett family introduced the manufacture of snuff to Delaware. The complex housed a snuff manufacturing operation until 1954.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The buildings were later incorporated into the Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=78000913}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Garrett Snuff Mill ]. Joan M. Norton and Dean E. Nelson . November 1977 . National Park Service. and