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Their plan was to build a gristmill to grind wheat into flour, giving the tobacco industry a run for its money.

Last year, Gillin and his wife helped revive the gristmill at Pioneer Village.

George Washington owned property along the river for a gristmill, and James Madison spent a night in what is now Riverbend Park after fleeing a burning Washington in 1814.

In the early 1970s, she helped turn a 19th-century gristmill into the Brandywine River Museum, providing a public home for hundreds of pieces by three generations of the family.

And the cornmeal, grits and pancake flour were ground in the estate’s reconstructed gristmill.