Angelo Otterbein ’95 Turnedan Abandoned Mill into a Creative Hub

Nestled just next to a winding stretch of Monkton Road, across from the rushing Gunpowder River, sits an old brick grist mill that was once a cornerstone of pre-Revolutionary War life in this part of northern Baltimore County, Maryland. After stints as an antique shop and a cidery, the mill sat abandoned, the 300-year-old walls covered with mold and the floors lined with barrels full of cider turning to vinegar. At one point, a car took the turn on Monkton Road too fast, ramming into the door and leaving behind a gaping hole that someone partially covered with tarp, “like a tattered eye patch,” says Bolling “Bo” Willse, a Monkton resident. “It was the embodiment of loneliness.”

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